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LaMDA 8B (pre-trained)

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LaMDA 8B (pre-trained) is a closed-weights language model from Google, released January 2022. Its published size is 8B parameters. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Smaller pre-trained LaMDA model evaluated by Google in Wei et al. (arXiv:2201.11903v6: 'LaMDA ... which has models of 422M, 2B, 8B, 68B, and 137B parameters'; table label '8B'). Released date is the LaMDA paper month (the LaMDA paper itself describes sizes 2B-137B). Never released. Comparison-only.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

12.4±1.5comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 9 benchmark results across 1 source

Score within the LMArena (text) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of LaMDA 8B (pre-trained), out of 877 with a score, then more from Google.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
850T5 Base Google14±3local~2.4GB2019-10
851Pythia 1.4B EleutherAI14±1local~2.4GB2023-02
852LaMDA 8B (pre-trained) Google12±2never released2022-01
853Pythia 1B EleutherAI12±1local~2.2GB2023-02
854GPT-3 text-curie-001 OpenAI12±1comparison only2022-01
more from Google
11Gemini 4 Argon Google80±1api $4.00/M2026-09
26Gemini 3.8 Flash Google76±1api $1.50/M2026-09
34Gemini 3.7 Flash Google75±1api $1.50/M2026-08

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$ what it's good at

math▁▃▃▆█▇▅▇▃▁▁▁ #512 of 523 * · 5.7% of its score · 1 test

Beats OPT-66B, Flan-T5 Base, Flan-T5 Small here, though they rank higher overall. Trails GPT-Neo 125M, OPT-125M, GPT-2 XL (1.5B) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GSM8K lab1.6% ✎█·▅▃▃▃·▃·▃▃▅ beats 3/12easy · avg 67%▇▇ 5.7%sharp · too hard for it
other tests8 not in a task · 93% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
MAWPS (CoT-paper union) lab4.8% ✎▅▃█···▅·▃▃▃▅ beats 5/12very easy · avg 94%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 38%sharp · too hard for it
ASDiv lab5.0% ✎▅▃▃▅··▃▃·▃▃█ beats 5/12easy · avg 83%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%sharp · too hard for it
SVAMP lab3.4% ✎▃▅█···▅·▃▃▃▅ beats 5/12easy · avg 82%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%sharp · too hard for it
BIG-bench Date Understanding lab9.5% ✎▃·▅·▅▃▅·▃▃·█ beats 5/12medium · avg 52%▇▇▇ 7.5%too hard for it
CommonsenseQA lab19.0% ✎█······▁·▁▁▃ beats 0/12easy · avg 87%▇▇ 4.2%sharp · too hard for it
BIG-bench Sports Understanding lab50.0% ✎█·····▃·▁·▄▁ beats 0/12medium · avg 81%▇ 3.0%sharp · too hard for it
StrategyQA lab54.1% ✎█·····▅▃▃▅▃█ beats 5/12medium · avg 70%▇ 2.7%too hard for it
AQuA-RAT lab18.6% ✎█▁·▁▁·····▂▁ beats 1/12medium · avg 48%▇ 0.6%sharp · too hard for it

$ where to run it

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$ how the score was worked out · Chain-of-Thought Prompting El… 99%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models — authors' own runs · lab-reported9CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle
weighted average= 12.4

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