Hyena 1.3B

Closed weights Stanford University,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) 1.3B parameters February 2023

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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

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Origin

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

Organisation
Stanford University,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms)
Organisation type
Academia,Academia,Academia
Country
United States of America, Canada
Published
21 February 2023
Authors
Michael Poli, Stefano Massaroli, Eric Nguyen, Daniel Y. Fu, Tri Dao, Stephen Baccus, Yoshua Bengio, Stefano Ermon, Christopher Ré

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation

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
1.3B
Training data
tokens

Only trained for 5B tokens (The Pile itself is larger)

Batch size
256

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
4.8 × 10¹⁹ FLOP

1.3e19 for the 355M version at 5B tokens. Scaling linearly to 1.3B parameters would be 4.76e19 FLOP

How it was established
Comparison with other models

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 SXM4 80 GB
Chips used
8
Power draw
6.4 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

apache 2.0 https://github.com/HazyResearch/safari (the repo doesn't seem to contain Hyena 1.3B)

How it is classified

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

Record confidence
Likely
Citations
497

Sources

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

Reference
Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

About this model

Hyena 1.3B was published by Stanford University,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms), in the country recorded as United States of America, during February 2023. The publishing organisation is categorised as academia,Academia,Academia.

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

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

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 4.8 × 10¹⁹ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Answers

Hyena 1.3B — common questions

01

Hyena 1.3B— is it open source?

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

02

Hyena 1.3B— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 1.3B. 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

Hyena 1.3B— who created it?

It was published by Stanford University,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms), based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as academia,Academia,Academia.

04

Hyena 1.3B— when was it released?

It was published in February 2023. 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

Hyena 1.3B— 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.

06

Hyena 1.3B— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 4.8 × 10¹⁹ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB. 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

Hyena 1.3B— 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 25 May 2026

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