Anthropic LM 175B

Closed weights Anthropic 175B parameters February 2023

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

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Origin

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

Organisation
Anthropic
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
15 February 2023
Authors
Deep Ganguli, Amanda Askell, Nicholas Schiefer, Thomas I. Liao, Kamilė Lukošiūtė, Anna Chen, Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Catherine Olsson, Danny Hernandez, Dawn Drain, Dustin Li, Eli Tran-Johnson, Ethan Perez, Jackson Kernion, Jamie Kerr, Jared Mueller, Joshua Landau, Kamal Ndousse, Karina Nguyen, Liane Lovitt, Michael Sellitto, Nelson Elhage, Noemi Mercado, Nova DasSarma, Oliver Rausch, Rober…

What it does

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Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Question answering
Approach
Reinforcement learning

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
175B

175B

Training data
tokens

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
Record confidence
Confident
Citations
206

Sources

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

Reference
The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Anthropic LM 175B was published by Anthropic, in United States of America, in February 2023. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

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

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

Answers

Anthropic LM 175B — common questions

01

Is Anthropic LM 175B open source?

No. Anthropic LM 175B has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

How many parameters does Anthropic LM 175B have?

Anthropic LM 175B has 175B parameters. 175B. 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

Who created Anthropic LM 175B?

Anthropic LM 175B was published by Anthropic, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

04

When was Anthropic LM 175B released?

Anthropic LM 175B 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

What is Anthropic LM 175B used for?

Anthropic LM 175B works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Question answering. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

06

What GPU do I need to run Anthropic LM 175B?

None. Anthropic LM 175B 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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