Vega v2

Closed weights Wuhan University,JD Explore Academy,Shanghai AI Lab,Nanyang Technological University,Washington University in St Louis,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,University of Sydney 6B parameters December 2022

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
Wuhan University,JD Explore Academy,Shanghai AI Lab,Nanyang Technological University,Washington University in St Louis,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,University of Sydney
Organisation type
Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia
Country
China, Singapore, United States of America, Australia
Published
4 December 2022
Authors
Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Yibing Zhan, Yu Qiao, Yonggang Wen, Li Shen, Juhua Liu, Baosheng Yu, Bo Du, Yixin Chen, Xinbo Gao, Chunyan Miao, Xiaoou Tang, Dacheng Tao

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling, Question answering, Word sense disambiguation

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
6B
Training data
6,439,999,999 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
7.8 × 10²² FLOP

Pretraining took 1 month on 320 A100 (Section 3.1) 720*60*60*320*312000000000000*0.3=7.7635584e+22

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
Chips used
320
Wall-clock time
720 hours (30 days)
Power draw
255.9 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

How it is classified

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

Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

Highest score at SuperGLUE leaderboard version 2.0 in terms of RTE (Recognizing Textual Entailment-Accuracy)

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
42

Sources

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

Reference
Toward Efficient Language Model Pretraining and Downstream Adaptation via Self-Evolution: A Case Study on SuperGLUE
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

Vega v2 was published by Wuhan University,JD Explore Academy,Shanghai AI Lab,Nanyang Technological University,Washington University in St Louis,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,University of Sydney, in the country recorded as China, during December 2022. The category the publisher falls under is academia,Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling, Question answering, Word sense disambiguation.

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

How it was trained

Producing it required arithmetic totalling around 7.8 × 10²² FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA A100. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

The training set ran to roughly 6,439,999,999 tokens of text.

Its inclusion criterion: sOTA improvement.

Answers

Vega v2 — common questions

01

Vega v2— is it open source?

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

02

Vega v2— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 6B. 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

Vega v2— who created it?

It was published by Wuhan University,JD Explore Academy,Shanghai AI Lab,Nanyang Technological University,Washington University in St Louis,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,University of Sydney, based in China, an organisation categorised as academia,Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia,Academia.

04

Vega v2— when was it released?

It was published in December 2022. 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

Vega v2— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling, Question answering, Word sense disambiguation. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

06

Vega v2— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 7.8 × 10²² FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA A100. 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

Vega v2— 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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