BLOOM is an open-source, 176B-parameter autoregressive language model for text and code generation. Supporting 46 languages and 13 programming languages, it offers a transparent alternative to proprietary models like GPT-3, Claude, and PaLM.
Key features:
- Multilingual Support: Generates coherent text in 46 natural languages and 13 programming languages.
- Large Scale: With 176 billion parameters, BLOOM is capable of complex text generation tasks.
- Open Access: Designed to promote public research on large language models.
- Text Generation: Continues text from a given prompt, generating human-quality content.
- Task Adaptation: Can be instructed to perform various text-based tasks by framing them as text generation problems.
Use Cases:
- Language Generation: Creating realistic and contextually relevant text for diverse applications.
- Research: Studying the characteristics and behaviors of large language models.
- Downstream Tasks: Serving as a pre-trained base for fine-tuning on specific NLP tasks like information extraction, question answering, and summarization.

