YouTube Video Recommendation System

Closed weights Google September 2010

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
Google
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
26 September 2010
Authors
J Davidson, B Liebald, J Liu, P Nandy

What it does

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

Domain
Recommendation
Task
Recommender system

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
tokens

"We currently handle millions of users and tens of billions of activity events with a total footprint of several terabytes of data" If 10M users each watch 1000 videos, that's 10B visualizations, which matches their "activity events" count.

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
Highly cited,Significant use,Historical significance
Citations
1,160

Sources

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

Reference
The YouTube Video Recommendation System
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

YouTube Video Recommendation System was published by Google, in United States of America, in September 2010. The organisation is categorised as industry.

It works in Recommendation, and is recorded as doing recommender system.

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

How it was trained

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is highly cited,Significant use,Historical significance.

Answers

YouTube Video Recommendation System — common questions

01

When was YouTube Video Recommendation System released?

YouTube Video Recommendation System was published in September 2010. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

02

What is YouTube Video Recommendation System used for?

YouTube Video Recommendation System works in Recommendation, and is recorded as handling recommender system. 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.

03

What GPU do I need to run YouTube Video Recommendation System?

None. YouTube Video Recommendation System 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.

04

Is YouTube Video Recommendation System open source?

The licensing for YouTube Video Recommendation System was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

05

How many parameters does YouTube Video Recommendation System have?

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

06

Who created YouTube Video Recommendation System?

YouTube Video Recommendation System was published by Google, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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