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BLOOM 176B

176B parameters • 96.8GB VRAM (Q4) • 2,048 context

Specifications

Parameters
176B
VRAM (Q4)
96.8 GB
VRAM (FP16)
352 GB
Context Window
2,048
Architecture
transformer
License
BigScience RAIL
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