Introducing The World's Largest Open Multilingual Language Model: BLOOM

What changed

Large language models (LLMs) have made a significant impact on AI research. These powerful, general models can take on a wide variety of new language tasks from a user’s instructions. 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.

Why it matters

A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.

How it compares

Related prior coverage to compare against:

• Optimization story: Bloom inference
• Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM
• Incredibly Fast BLOOM Inference with DeepSpeed and Accelerate

• Optimization story: Bloom inference similarity 0.28
• Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM similarity 0.24
• Incredibly Fast BLOOM Inference with DeepSpeed and Accelerate similarity 0.22