Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
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.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- Google DeepMind
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 10 May 2024
- Authors
- Gemini Team
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Multimodal, Language, Vision, Audio
- Task
- Chat, Image captioning, Visual question answering, Translation, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Speech recognition (ASR)
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
- 8B
- Training data
- tokens
8B
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 v4
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
- API access
- Training code
- Unreleased
API access: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/models
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Record confidence
- Confident
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
What this model is
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B was published by Google DeepMind, in the country recorded as United States of America, during May 2024. The category the publisher falls under is industry.
It works in the domain of Multimodal, Language, Vision, Audio, and is recorded as performing the task of chat, Image captioning, Visual question answering, Translation, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Speech recognition (ASR).
Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.
Answers
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B — common questions
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B— how many parameters does it have?
It has a parameter count of 8B. 8B. 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.
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B— who created it?
It was published by Google DeepMind, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B— when was it released?
It 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.
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Multimodal, Language, Vision, Audio, and is recorded as handling the task of chat, Image captioning, Visual question answering, Translation, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Speech recognition (ASR). Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B— 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.
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B— is it open source?
No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
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