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Theseus

Training compute
4×10¹ FLOP
Parameters
40
Published
Jul 2, 1950

Theseus is an AI model developed by Bell Laboratories (United States), first published in July 1950. It works in the robotics domain, on tasks such as maze solving. It counts among the frontier models: the systems trained with the most compute of their moment.

Training it took an estimated 4×10¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: other). The model has 40 parameters. It was trained on roughly 40 datapoints.

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Organization
Bell Laboratories
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Robotics
Task
Maze solving
Training compute
4×10¹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Other
Parameters
40
Dataset size
40
Epoch confidence
Confident
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