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AI21 Labs launches Jurassic-1
AI21 Labs launched the Jurassic-1 language model family and opened its API and web interface through the AI21 Studio open beta.
What happened
Event details
AI21 Labs launched Jurassic-1 on August 4, 2021. The family included two model sizes, with J1-Jumbo at 178 billion parameters, and used a 250,000-token vocabulary. AI21 Studio entered open beta on the same day, allowing registered developers to use the models through an API or interactive web interface.
Assessment
Why it matters
Jurassic-1 brought a 178-billion-parameter language model to a developer API and was an early example of registration-based public access to a large language model.
73/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
AI21 Studio was in open beta at launch.