BaGuaLu

Closed weights Tsinghua University,Zhejiang Lab,Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI,Alibaba 173.9T parameters March 2022

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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
Tsinghua University,Zhejiang Lab,Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI,Alibaba
Organisation type
Academia,Academia,Industry
Country
China
Published
28 March 2022
Authors
Zixuan Ma, Jiaao He, Jiezhong Qiu, Huanqi Cao, Yuanwei Wang, Zhenbo Sun, Liyan Zheng, Haojie Wang, Shizhi Tang, Tianyu Zheng, Junyang Lin, Guanyu Feng, Zeqiang Huang, Jie Gao, Aohan Zeng, Jianwei Zhang, Runxin Zhong, Tianhui Shi, Sha Liu, Weimin Zheng, Jie Tang, Hongxia Yang, Xin Liu, Jidong Zhai, Wenguang Chen

What it does

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

Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision
Task
Language modeling, Image classification
Approach
Self-supervised 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
173.9T

Table 3, MoDa-174T has 173.9 trillion parameters

Training data
tokens

17.5B tokens (in English, this is approximately 13.1B words, but the conversion may be different in Chinese) and 60.5M images.

How it is classified

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

Citations
37

Sources

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

Reference
BaGuaLu: Targeting Brain Scale Pretrained Models with over 37 Million Cores
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

BaGuaLu was published by Tsinghua University,Zhejiang Lab,Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI,Alibaba, in China, in March 2022. The organisation is categorised as academia,Academia,Industry.

It works in Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as doing language modeling, Image classification.

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

Answers

BaGuaLu — common questions

01

Is BaGuaLu open source?

The licensing for BaGuaLu was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

02

How many parameters does BaGuaLu have?

BaGuaLu has 173.9T parameters. Table 3, MoDa-174T has 173.9 trillion parameters. 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 BaGuaLu?

BaGuaLu was published by Tsinghua University,Zhejiang Lab,Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI,Alibaba, based in China, categorised as academia,Academia,Industry.

04

When was BaGuaLu released?

BaGuaLu was published in March 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

What is BaGuaLu used for?

BaGuaLu works in Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as handling language modeling, Image classification. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

06

What GPU do I need to run BaGuaLu?

None. BaGuaLu 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 28 November 2025

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