RNNsearch-50*

Closed weights Jacobs University Bremen,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal September 2014

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

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Jacobs University Bremen,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
Germany, Canada
Published
1 September 2014
Authors
D Bahdanau, K Cho, Y Bengio

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
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.

Training data
232,000,000 tokens

[WORDS] "WMT ’14 contains the following English-French parallel corpora: Europarl (61M words), news commentary (5.5M), UN (421M) and two crawled corpora of 90M and 272.5M words respectively, totaling 850M words. Following the procedure described in Cho et al. (2014a), we reduce the size of the combined corpus to have 348M words using the data selection method by Axelrod et al. (2011)."

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
1.6 × 10¹⁸ FLOP

From https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/ Appendix. 0.018 pfs-days (86400*10^15*0.018) 252 hours in a Quadro K-6000 GPU (assumed utilization: 0.33) 5196000000000 FLOP/s *252 hours * 3600 second/hour * 0.33 utilization = 1555200000000000000 FLOP

How it was established
Third-party estimation

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 Quadro K6000

How it is classified

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

Frontier model
Yes
Why it is tracked
Highly cited
Record confidence
Confident
Citations
29,415

Sources

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

Reference
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

RNNsearch-50* was published by Jacobs University Bremen,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal, in the country recorded as Germany, during September 2014. It comes out of an organisation categorised as academia,Academia.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of translation.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 1.6 × 10¹⁸ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA Quadro K6000. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Training consumed a corpus of around 232,000,000 tokens of text.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all: highly cited.

Answers

RNNsearch-50* — common questions

01

RNNsearch-50*— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

02

RNNsearch-50*— who created it?

It was published by Jacobs University Bremen,University of Montreal / Université de Montréal, based in Germany, an organisation categorised as academia,Academia.

03

RNNsearch-50*— when was it released?

It was published in September 2014. 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

RNNsearch-50*— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of translation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

05

RNNsearch-50*— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 1.6 × 10¹⁸ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA Quadro K6000. 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

RNNsearch-50*— 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.

07

RNNsearch-50*— 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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