WeLM is an AI model developed by WeChat AI (China), first published in May 2023. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and translation.
Training it took an estimated 2.5×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 10,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 262B datapoints. Training ran on 128 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB for about 576 hours.
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