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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Hugging Face
- C · CEO & Politics
- Clément Delangue — European progressive / open-source advocate
- D · Date
- 2022
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- France
- K · Key Staffers
- Thomas Wolf (CSO & Co-Founder), Julien Chaumond (CTO & Co-Founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, BigScience BLOOM RAIL 1.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.60
- R · What Makes It Special
- BLOOM, the BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model released in July 2022: a 176-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer with ALiBi positional encodings, built by the BigScience collaboration from May 2021 to May 2022, funded by the French government, Hugging Face and contributing organizations. It writes coherent text in 46 languages and 13 programming languages, handles new tasks cast as text generation and uses the BigScience BLOOM RAIL 1.0 license.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($4.5B valuation, Aug 2023; exploring a sale at $13B+ as of Aug 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @huggingface
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from Hugging Face, released 2022.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“BLOOM.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/bloom-hugging-face.html
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