GAIA-2

Closed weights Wayve 8.7B parameters March 2025

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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.

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Full specification

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Origin

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

Organisation
Wayve
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
26 March 2025
Authors
Lloyd Russell, Anthony Hu, Lorenzo Bertoni, George Fedoseev, Jamie Shotton, Elahe Arani, Gianluca Corrado

What it does

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

Domain
Video, Vision, Multimodal, Language
Task
Self-driving car, Video generation, Instruction interpretation

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
8.7B

video tokenizer: 285M parameters workd model: 8.4B parameters total: 8.685B parameters

Training data
tokens

"The dataset comprises approximately 25 million video sequences, each spanning 2 seconds, collected between 2019 and 2024. Recordings were obtained across three countries—the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany—to ensure coverage of geographically and environmentally diverse driving conditions. "

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
7.6 × 10²² FLOP

"The video tokenizer was trained for 300,000 steps with a batch size of 128 using 128 H100 GPUs. Input sequences consisted of Tv = 24 video frames sampled at their native capture frequencies (20, 25, or 30 Hz). Random spatial crops of size 448 × 960 were extracted from the frames. For each training sample, a camera view was randomly selected from the available N = 5 perspectives." "The latent world model was trained for 460,000 steps with a batch size of 256 on 256 H100 GPUs. Inputs consisted o…

How it was established
Operation counting

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 H100 SXM5 80GB

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Confident

Sources

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

Reference
GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

GAIA-2 was published by Wayve, in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in March 2025. It comes out of industry.

It works in Video, Vision, Multimodal, Language, and is recorded as doing self-driving car, Video generation, Instruction interpretation.

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

What went into building it

The training run consumed about 7.6 × 10²² FLOP, on NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB. That figure describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.

Answers

GAIA-2 — common questions

01

How many parameters does GAIA-2 have?

GAIA-2 has 8.7B parameters. video tokenizer: 285M parameters workd model: 8.4B parameters total: 8.685B parameters. 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.

02

Who created GAIA-2?

GAIA-2 was published by Wayve, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, categorised as industry.

03

When was GAIA-2 released?

GAIA-2 was published in March 2025.

04

What is GAIA-2 used for?

GAIA-2 works in Video, Vision, Multimodal, Language, and is recorded as handling self-driving car, Video generation, Instruction interpretation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

05

How much compute was used to train GAIA-2?

Around 7.6 × 10²² FLOP, on NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB. 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

What GPU do I need to run GAIA-2?

None. GAIA-2 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

Is GAIA-2 open source?

No. GAIA-2 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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