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Volcano 13B

Training compute
4.6×10²² FLOP
Parameters
13B
Published
Nov 13, 2023

Volcano 13B is an AI model developed by Korea University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and LG (South Korea), first published in November 2023. It works in the language, multimodal and vision domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and visual question answering.

Training it took an estimated 4.6×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 13,000,000,000 parameters. Training ran on NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB for about 30 hours.

Access: Open weights (non-commercial). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of LLaVA 1.5. The reference paper has 103 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.

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Organization
Korea University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), LG
Country of organization
South Korea
Domain
Language, Multimodal, Vision
Task
Language modeling/generation, Visual question answering
Training compute
4.6×10²² FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware
Parameters
13,000,000,000
Training hardware
NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Training time
30 h
Numerical format
FP16
Model accessibility
Open weights (non-commercial)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
LLaVA 1.5
Citations
103
Epoch confidence
Likely
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