EXAONE 1.0

Closed weights LG 300B parameters December 2021

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
LG
Organisation type
Industry
Country
Korea (Republic of)
Published
14 December 2021

What it does

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

Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision
Task
Translation, Language modeling/generation, Visual question answering

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
300B
Training data
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
1.7 × 10²⁴ FLOP

No indication of how images are processed. Supposing they used something like ViT-H/14, and training images were 512x512 (they state "EXAONE shows remarkable performance such as [...] offering 1024x1024 sized image output", but typically this size of image training would only be done during a relatively short, final stage of pre-training), there would be 37x37 = 1,369 patches per image 1,369 * 250 million = around 342 billion image patch embeddings. 300M parameters * (342 billion + 600 billion)…

How it was established
Operation counting

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Compute cost
$2,702,636

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.

Frontier model
Yes
Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
Training cost
Record confidence
Speculative

Sources

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

Last updated
1 December 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

EXAONE 1.0 was published by LG, in Korea (Republic of), in December 2021. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as doing translation, Language modeling/generation, Visual question answering.

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

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 1.7 × 10²⁴ FLOP. That figure describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is training cost.

Answers

EXAONE 1.0 — common questions

01

How many parameters does EXAONE 1.0 have?

EXAONE 1.0 has 300B 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.

02

Who created EXAONE 1.0?

EXAONE 1.0 was published by LG, based in Korea (Republic of), categorised as industry.

03

When was EXAONE 1.0 released?

EXAONE 1.0 was published in December 2021. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

04

What is EXAONE 1.0 used for?

EXAONE 1.0 works in Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as handling translation, Language modeling/generation, Visual question answering. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

05

How much compute was used to train EXAONE 1.0?

Around 1.7 × 10²⁴ 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.

06

What GPU do I need to run EXAONE 1.0?

None. EXAONE 1.0 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.

07

Is EXAONE 1.0 open source?

No. EXAONE 1.0 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 1 December 2025

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