ALLaM adapted13B

Closed weights Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority 13B parameters May 2024

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Full specification

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Origin

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

Organisation
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
Organisation type
Industry,Government
Country
Saudi Arabia
Published
21 May 2024
Authors
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Translation, Question answering
Base model
LLaMA-13B
Numerical format
BF16

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
13B
Training data
5,200,000,000,000 tokens

3,431,217,579(4.3B) total documents, with a total of 4,587,781,981,546(4.5T) words, and 5.2T tokens.

Epochs
1

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
1.7 × 10²³ FLOP

Finetuning compute: 6*13000000000*1200000000000=9.36e+22 Llama 13B training FLOP: 7.8e+22 Total: 1.716e+23

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
NVIDIA A100

Availability

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

on IBM watsonx platform https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/fm-models.html?context=wx

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Record confidence
Confident
Citations
69

Sources

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

Reference
ALLaM: Large Language Models for Arabic and English
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

About this model

ALLaM adapted13B was published by Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, in Saudi Arabia, in May 2024. It comes out of industry,Government.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling/generation, Translation, Question answering.

Its starting point was LLaMA-13B — most models at this scale are adapted from an existing base rather than built from nothing.

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

Training and provenance

Producing it required around 1.7 × 10²³ FLOP of arithmetic, on NVIDIA A100, which is a statement about the training budget rather than about inference.

It was trained on about 5,200,000,000,000 tokens of text.

Answers

ALLaM adapted13B — common questions

01

How many parameters does ALLaM adapted13B have?

ALLaM adapted13B has 13B 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.

02

Who created ALLaM adapted13B?

ALLaM adapted13B was published by Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, based in Saudi Arabia, categorised as industry,Government.

03

When was ALLaM adapted13B released?

ALLaM adapted13B was published in May 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.

04

What is ALLaM adapted13B used for?

ALLaM adapted13B works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Translation, Question answering. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

05

How much compute was used to train ALLaM adapted13B?

Around 1.7 × 10²³ FLOP, on NVIDIA A100. 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.

06

What GPU do I need to run ALLaM adapted13B?

None. ALLaM adapted13B 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.

07

Is ALLaM adapted13B open source?

No. ALLaM adapted13B has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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