XLNet
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sundar Pichai — Centrist / historically bipartisan
- D · Date
- 2019
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist), Sundar Pichai (CEO Alphabet)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.45
- R · What Makes It Special
- XLNet (June 2019), from Carnegie Mellon University and the Google AI Brain Team, an autoregressive pretraining method that learns bidirectional context by maximizing likelihood over all permutations of the factorization order, avoiding BERT's masked inputs and pretrain-finetune mismatch, and that borrows from Transformer-XL; under comparable settings it outperformed BERT on 20 tasks, often by a large margin, including question answering, inference, sentiment analysis and document ranking.
- S · Stock / Status
- $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from Google, released 2019.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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