BLOOM

Large language models (LLMs) have made a significant impact on AI research. These powerful, general models can take on a wide variety of new language tasks from a user's instructions. However, academia, nonprofits and smaller companies' research labs find it difficult to create, study, or even use LLMs as only a few industrial labs with the necessary resources and exclusive rights can fully access them. Today, we release BLOOM, the first multilingual LLM trained in complete transparency, to change this status quo -- the result of the largest collaboration of AI researchers ever involved in a single research project. With its 176 billion parameters, BLOOM is able to generate text in 46 natural languages and 13 programming languages.