M6-100B
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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
- Tsinghua University,Alibaba
- Organisation type
- Academia,Industry
- Country
- China
- Published
- 1 March 2021
- Authors
- J Lin, R Men, A Yang, C Zhou, M Ding, Y Zhang
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Multimodal, Image generation, Vision, Language
- Task
- Image 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
- 100B
- Training data
- tokens
"We scale the model size up to 10 billion and 100 billion parameters, and build the largest pretrained model in Chinese."
"1.9TB images and 292GB texts" TODO: figure out what to do for multimodal pretraining datasets
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Citations
- 152
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- M6: A Chinese Multimodal Pretrainer
- Last updated
- 25 May 2026
What the numbers mean
What this model is
M6-100B was published by Tsinghua University,Alibaba, in the country recorded as China, during March 2021. It comes out of an organisation categorised as academia,Industry.
It works in the domain of Multimodal, Image generation, Vision, Language, and is recorded as performing the task of image generation, Visual question answering.
Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.
Answers
M6-100B — common questions
M6-100B— 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.
M6-100B— is it open source?
The licensing was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.
M6-100B— how many parameters does it have?
It has a parameter count of 100B. "We scale the model size up to 10 billion and 100 billion parameters, and build the largest pretrained model in Chinese.". 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.
M6-100B— who created it?
It was published by Tsinghua University,Alibaba, based in China, an organisation categorised as academia,Industry.
M6-100B— when was it released?
It was published in March 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.
M6-100B— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Multimodal, Image generation, Vision, Language, and is recorded as handling the task of image generation, Visual question answering. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.
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