Open-source releaseModerate global significanceConfirmed confidence
BigCode releases StarCoder
BigCode releases an open large language model trained for code generation and programming tasks.
What happened
Event details
BigCode released StarCoder on May 4, 2023. The model has 15.5B parameters, is open source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the StarCoder announcement is the primary source.
Assessment
Why it matters
An open-source model release with a documented model, parameter scale or access condition.
67/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Publicly available as an open-source code model.