# Hugging Face — Introducing The World's Largest Open Multilingual Language Model: BLOOM

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-07-12
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/bloom
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2179-introducing-the-world-s-largest-open-multilingual-language-model-bloom
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: BLOOM
- License: Responsible AI License

Hugging Face releases BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter open multilingual language model trained in complete transparency, covering 46 natural languages and 13 programming languages, under a Responsible AI License, as the result of a large collaboration of over 1000 researchers.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/bloom:

> Today, we release BLOOM, the first multilingual LLM trained in complete transparency, to change this status quo — the result of the largest collaboration of AI researchers ever involved in a single research project.

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