LLM Reference

Chinchilla 70B

Released
2022-03-29
Last refreshed
2026-04-15
Status
Researched 154d ago

Chinchilla 70B has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work

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
Released
2022-03-29
Parameters
70B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Chinchilla 70B is a large language model from Google DeepMind, launched in March 2022. It adopts a compute-optimal approach, emphasizing a balance between model size and training data quantity, contrasting previous trends that prioritized model size alone. The model's architecture is based on transformers and utilizes innovations like RMSNorm and relative positional encoding. Trained with the MassiveText dataset using 1.4 trillion tokens, Chinchilla delivers superior performance compared to other larger models like GPT-3. While it demonstrates efficiency in tasks such as reading comprehension and common sense reasoning, limitations include high training costs and the potential for biased outputs. Additionally, it remains inaccessible for public use, restricting broader experimentation.

Chinchilla 70B is a model in the Chinchilla family. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Chinchilla 70B yet.

Top use-case fit

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

Provider price ladder

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Capabilities

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Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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Migration checks

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