LLM Reference

BLOOMZ 3B

Released
2022-07-20
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago

BLOOMZ 3B has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

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
3B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2021
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Pioneering open-source AI collaboration

N/A
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

BLOOMZ 3B is a multilingual large language model created by the BigScience workshop. It leverages around 3 billion parameters and a Transformer architecture, enabling it to perform diverse tasks like translation, summarization, and question answering in several languages. Its fine-tuning on the xP3 dataset allows effective cross-lingual performance, although its efficacy can be influenced by prompt structure. The model’s training required significant computational resources, utilizing 128 A100 GPUs over 2000 finetuning steps. While offering efficient inference and zero-shot capabilities, its functionality may vary with prompt and multilingual tasks without specific adaptations.

BLOOMZ 3B is a model in the BLOOMZ family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for BLOOMZ 3B 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.

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