LLM Reference

BLOOMZ 176B

Released
2022-07-20
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditional

BLOOMZ 176B is released 2022-07-20 in the BLOOMZ family with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 2k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
BLOOMZ
Released
2022-07-20
Context
2k
Parameters
176B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2021
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
License
BigScience RAIL LicenseCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

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Founded 2021
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

BLOOMZ 176B is an advanced multilingual large language model built on the BLOOM framework. It excels in multilingual tasks, supporting 46 natural languages and 13 programming languages, with notable proficiency in natural language processing tasks such as text generation, translation, and code generation. The model has 176 billion parameters, which makes it one of the largest open-access models available. Known for its strong zero-shot and few-shot learning capabilities, BLOOMZ improves upon its predecessor with multitask prompted finetuning, though its size requires significant computational resources for effective deployment.

BLOOMZ 176B is an open-weight model in the BLOOMZ family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for BLOOMZ 176B yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of BLOOMZ 176B?

BLOOMZ 176B has a context window of 2k tokens.

When was BLOOMZ 176B released?

BLOOMZ 176B was released on 2022-07-20.