Text2Protein

Closed weights University of California San Diego,Brown University September 2024

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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.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

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

Organisation
University of California San Diego,Brown University
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
United States of America
Published
13 September 2024
Authors
Ramtin Hosseini, Siyang Zhang, Pengtao Xie

What it does

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

Domain
Biology
Task
Protein design

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

Training set: 10,898 * 0.95 = 10,353 proteins Average residues per protein: 100 Total datapoints = 10,353 * 100 = 1,035,300 Range validation: Minimum (40 residues): 10,353 * 40 = 414,120 Maximum (256 residues): 10,353 * 256 = 2,648,768 Final estimate: ~1.0e6 datapoints

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
5.5 × 10¹⁹ FLOP

1. Hardware setup: 1x NVIDIA RTX 3090 (1.60e14 FLOP/s FP16 tensor) 2. Training duration: 10 days provided directly (864,000 seconds) 3. Utilization rate: 40% 4. Calculation: 1.60e14 FLOP/s × 1 GPU × 864,000s × 0.4 = 5.5e19 FLOPs

How it was established
Hardware

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 GeForce RTX 3090
Wall-clock time
240 hours (10 days)

"We trained the diffusion model for approximately 500,000 iterations with a batch size of 248. The entire training process, conducted on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU, took about 10 days to complete."

How it is classified

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

Record confidence
Confident

Sources

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

Reference
Text2Protein: A Generative Model for Designated Protein Design on Given Description
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

Text2Protein was published by University of California San Diego,Brown University, in United States of America, in September 2024. The organisation is categorised as academia,Academia.

It works in Biology, and is recorded as doing protein design.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

How it was trained

Training it took roughly 5.5 × 10¹⁹ FLOP of computation, on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — a measure of what producing the model cost, not of how fast it answers.

Answers

Text2Protein — common questions

01

What GPU do I need to run Text2Protein?

None. Text2Protein 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.

02

Is Text2Protein open source?

The licensing for Text2Protein was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

03

How many parameters does Text2Protein have?

No parameter count has been published for Text2Protein, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

04

Who created Text2Protein?

Text2Protein was published by University of California San Diego,Brown University, based in United States of America, categorised as academia,Academia.

05

When was Text2Protein released?

Text2Protein was published in September 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

What is Text2Protein used for?

Text2Protein works in Biology, and is recorded as handling protein design. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

07

How much compute was used to train Text2Protein?

Around 5.5 × 10¹⁹ FLOP, on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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