GPipe (Amoeba)
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
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 16 November 2018
- Authors
- Yanping Huang, Youlong Cheng, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, Mia Xu Chen, Dehao Chen, HyoukJoong Lee, Jiquan Ngiam, Quoc V. Le, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Vision
- Task
- Image classification
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
- 557M
- Training data
- 1,281,167 tokens
Section 4
Table 4
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Citations
- 1,218
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- GPipe: Efficient Training of Giant Neural Networks using Pipeline Parallelism
- Last updated
- 11 February 2026
What the numbers mean
Background
GPipe (Amoeba) was published by Google, in the country recorded as United States of America, during November 2018. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.
It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of image classification.
Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.
What went into building it
It was trained on a corpus of about 1,281,167 tokens of text.
Answers
GPipe (Amoeba) — common questions
GPipe (Amoeba)— 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.
GPipe (Amoeba)— how many parameters does it have?
It has a parameter count of 557M. Section 4. 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.
GPipe (Amoeba)— who created it?
It was published by Google, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.
GPipe (Amoeba)— when was it released?
It was published in November 2018. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
GPipe (Amoeba)— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of image classification. 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.
GPipe (Amoeba)— 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.
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