ALOHA Unleashed

Closed weights Google DeepMind 217M parameters September 2024

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The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

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Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Google DeepMind
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
8 September 2024
Authors
Tony Z. Zhao, Jonathan Tompson, Danny Driess, Pete Florence, Kamyar Ghasemipour, Chelsea Finn, Ayzaan Wahid

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Robotics
Task
Robotic manipulation

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters
217M

"the Base model consists of 217M learnable parameters"

Training data
tokens

"we collect over 26k episodes for 5 real tasks, on 10 different robots in 2 different buildings over the course of 8 months" "images resized to 256x256"

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

Training compute
3.6 × 10²¹ FLOP

265 hours *3600 sec / hour *64 GPUs *197000000000000 FLOP / s *0.3 [assumed utilization] = 3.6084096e+21 FLOP

How it was established
Hardware

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
Google TPU v5e
Chips used
64
Wall-clock time
265 hours (11 days)

"We train our models with JAX [51] using 64 TPUv5e chips with a data parallel mesh. We use a batch size of 256 and train for 2M steps (about 265 hours of training). "

Power draw
28.4 kW

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Confident

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
ALOHA Unleashed: A Simple Recipe for Robot Dexterity
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

ALOHA Unleashed was published by Google DeepMind, in the country recorded as United States of America, during September 2024. The publishing organisation is categorised as industry.

It works in the domain of Robotics, and is recorded as performing the task of robotic manipulation.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

What went into building it

The training run consumed about 3.6 × 10²¹ FLOP, on hardware recorded as Google TPU v5e. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Answers

ALOHA Unleashed — common questions

01

ALOHA Unleashed— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

ALOHA Unleashed— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 217M. "the Base model consists of 217M learnable parameters". That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

03

ALOHA Unleashed— who created it?

It was published by Google DeepMind, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

04

ALOHA Unleashed— when was it released?

It was published in September 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

ALOHA Unleashed— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Robotics, and is recorded as handling the task of robotic manipulation. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

06

ALOHA Unleashed— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 3.6 × 10²¹ FLOP, on hardware recorded as Google TPU v5e. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.

07

ALOHA Unleashed— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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