BLOOM 176B Open Multilingual LLM released under Responsible AI License; API access via Hugging Face Hub and Google TPU

AI Impact Summary

BLOOM is a 176B-parameter multilingual LLM released openly under a Responsible AI License, enabling researchers to download, run, and inspect the model and its training states. The release includes intermediary checkpoints and optimizer states, plus an inference API backed by Google’s TPU cloud and a FLAX implementation, lowering barriers for experimental analysis of performance and internal behavior. Accessible via the Hugging Face Hub and trained on the Jean Zay supercomputer, BLOOM unlocks benchmarking and multilingual experimentation across 46 languages and 13 programming languages for academia, nonprofits, and industry labs with limited resources.