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BigCode releases StarCoder

BigCode releases an open large language model trained for code generation and programming tasks.

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.

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.

Access notes

Publicly available as an open-source code model.