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Turing-NLG (17B)

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Microsoft · Turing-NLG family · released Feb 13, 2020

At launch the largest Transformer LM (17B); showcased DeepSpeed/ZeRO; research-only, weights never released.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
-579.1
Elo · unrated
Parameters
17B
Active params
17B (dense)
Context
1K tokens
Architecture
Dense Transformer decoder (78 layers, hidden size 4256, 28 attention heads)
License
Proprietary (weights never released)
Languages
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API price (in/out)
No hosted API
Modalities
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Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
LAMBADAReasoning68.0%#22
best: GPT-3 175B · 86.4%
Run it locally
Closed weights — available via API only. No local deployment.
Input / M tok
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Output / M tok
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Turing-NLG family
Elo progression across releases
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