Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)
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
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Organisation type
- Academia
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 14 June 2004
- Authors
- William Red L. Whittaker
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Driving
- Task
- Self-driving car
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
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Record confidence
- Unknown
- Citations
- 66
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- DARPA Grand Challenge Technical Paper
- Last updated
- 11 February 2026
What the numbers mean
Where it came from
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I) was published by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in the country recorded as United States of America, during June 2004. The publishing organisation is categorised as academia.
It works in the domain of Driving, and is recorded as performing the task of self-driving car.
This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.
Answers
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I) — common questions
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)— 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.
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)— 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.
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)— 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.
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)— who created it?
It was published by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as academia.
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)— when was it released?
It was published in June 2004. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
Sandstorm (DARPA Grand Challenge I)— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Driving, and is recorded as handling the task of self-driving car. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
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