Aramco Metabrain AI

Closed weights Saudi Aramco 250B parameters March 2024

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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
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 Saudi Arabia, in March 2024. It comes out of industry,Government.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing 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 describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.

Around 7,000,000,000,000 tokens went into training it.

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

Answers

Aramco Metabrain AI — common questions

01

When was Aramco Metabrain AI released?

Aramco Metabrain AI 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

What is Aramco Metabrain AI used for?

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

03

How much compute was used to train Aramco Metabrain AI?

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

What GPU do I need to run Aramco Metabrain AI?

None. Aramco Metabrain AI 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

Is Aramco Metabrain AI open source?

No. Aramco Metabrain AI has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

How many parameters does Aramco Metabrain AI have?

Aramco Metabrain AI has 250B parameters. "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

Who created Aramco Metabrain AI?

Aramco Metabrain AI was published by Saudi Aramco, based in Saudi Arabia, categorised as industry,Government.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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