Aramco Metabrain AI

Closed weights Saudi Aramco 250B parameters March 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.

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
Saudi Aramco
Organisation type
Industry,Government
Country
Saudi Arabia
Published
4 March 2024
Authors
Saudi Aramco

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation
Approach
Supervised

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
250B

"It has 250 billion parameters that are adjustable during training to generate outputs or make predictions."

Training data
7,000,000,000,000 tokens

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 × 10²⁵ FLOP

6*250B*7T=1.05e+25

How it was established
Operation counting

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

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

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
Training cost
Record confidence
Likely

Sources

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

Reference
Saudi Aramco unveils industry’s first generative AI model
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

Aramco Metabrain AI was published by Saudi Aramco, in the country recorded as Saudi Arabia, during March 2024. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry,Government.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling/generation.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 1 × 10²⁵ FLOP. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Training consumed a corpus of around 7,000,000,000,000 tokens of text.

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: training cost.

Answers

Aramco Metabrain AI — common questions

01

Aramco Metabrain AI— when was it released?

It was published in March 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.

02

Aramco Metabrain AI— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling/generation. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

03

Aramco Metabrain AI— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 1 × 10²⁵ FLOP. 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.

04

Aramco Metabrain AI— 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.

05

Aramco Metabrain AI— is it open source?

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

06

Aramco Metabrain AI— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 250B. "It has 250 billion parameters that are adjustable during training to generate outputs or make predictions.". 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.

07

Aramco Metabrain AI— who created it?

It was published by Saudi Aramco, based in Saudi Arabia, an organisation categorised as industry,Government.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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