Claude 2 (Anthropic) and FLAN 137B (Google Research) are both frontier AI models. Claude 2 was published in July 2023 and FLAN 137B in September 2021.
Claude 2 was trained on 3.9 x 10^24 FLOP, about 1.9x the compute of FLAN 137B at 2 x 10^24 FLOP. Training compute is the closest available proxy for how much was invested in a model, though it says nothing on its own about how well that compute was spent.
These two models share no benchmark on which both have been scored, so no direct performance comparison is possible here. The specification table below is a comparison of inputs, not of results.
| Field | Claude 2 | FLAN 137B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Google Research |
| Published | Jul 11, 2023 | Sep 3, 2021 |
| Training compute | 3.9 x 10^24 FLOP | 2 x 10^24 FLOP |
| Parameters | — | 137B |
| Dataset size | — | 2.5T |
| Training hardware | — | Google TPU v3 |
| Training cost (2023 USD) | $5M | — |
| Accessibility | API access | Unreleased |
| Open weights | No | No |
| Country | United States | United States |
