Turing ULRv5
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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
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
- Microsoft
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 28 September 2021
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Language
- Task
- Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Translation
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
- 2.2B
- Training data
- tokens
2.2B
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
- 2.9 × 10²² FLOP
- How it was established
- Hardware
312000000000000 FLOP / GPU / sec [A100] * 256 GPUs * 336 hours * 3600 sec / hour * 0.3 [assumed utilization] = 2.8983951e+22 FLOP
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
- 256
- Wall-clock time
- 336 hours (14 days)
- Power draw
- 206.7 kW
"two weeks on 256 NVIDIA A100 GPUs"
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
- Hosted access (no API)
- Training code
- Unreleased
"Microsoft Turing models are also available for custom application building through our private preview program" "If you are a researcher who would like to work with us in assessing and improving Turing models, Microsoft Turing Academic Program (MS-TAP) allows you to submit a proposal and get access to these models in greater detail."
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
- Record confidence
- Confident
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
About this model
Turing ULRv5 was published by Microsoft, in United States of America, in September 2021. The organisation is categorised as industry.
It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling/generation, Question answering, Translation.
This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.
What went into building it
The training run consumed about 2.9 × 10²² FLOP, on NVIDIA A100. That figure describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.
Its inclusion criterion is sOTA improvement.
Answers
Turing ULRv5 — common questions
How much compute was used to train Turing ULRv5?
Around 2.9 × 10²² FLOP, on 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.
What GPU do I need to run Turing ULRv5?
None. Turing ULRv5 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.
Is Turing ULRv5 open source?
No. Turing ULRv5 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
How many parameters does Turing ULRv5 have?
Turing ULRv5 has 2.2B parameters. 2.2B. 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.
Who created Turing ULRv5?
Turing ULRv5 was published by Microsoft, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.
When was Turing ULRv5 released?
Turing ULRv5 was published in September 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.
What is Turing ULRv5 used for?
Turing ULRv5 works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Question answering, Translation. 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.
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