LLM Reference

Pythia 160M

Released
2023-05-31
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Pythia 160M is released 2023-05-31 in the Pythia family with open-source; 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
Pythia
Released
2023-05-31
Context
2k
Parameters
160M
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2020-03
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

The Pythia 160M is a large language model by EleutherAI and part of the Pythia Scaling Suite, consisting of models from 70 million to 12 billion parameters. Built on the GPT-NeoX architecture, it features 12 layers, 768 hidden dimensions, and 12 attention heads, supporting a context length of 2048 tokens. It is trained with The Pile dataset, totaling 299,892,736,000 tokens, across 154 checkpoints. While it excels in text generation and interpretability research, its limitations include generating biased or harmful content, being English-only, and not being fine-tuned for deployment in specific applications. Despite these, it stands out as a research tool aiding the understanding of large language models 2345610.

Pythia 160M is an open-source model in the Pythia family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Pythia 160M 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 Pythia 160M?

Pythia 160M has a context window of 2k tokens.

When was Pythia 160M released?

Pythia 160M was released on 2023-05-31.