# Bigscience Bloom

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/bigscience-bloom
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/bigscience-bloom.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/bigscience-bloom/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://huggingface.co
- **Slug:** bigscience-bloom
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** One of the first massive-scale language models developed through a transparent global collaborative effort rather than a private corporation.
Source: Brand's website (https://huggingface.co) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** BLOOM is a 176-billion parameter open-access multilingual large language model. Developed by the BigScience research collective and coordinated by Hugging Face, it was trained on the Jean Zay supercomputer to promote open science in AI research.
Source: Brand's website (https://huggingface.co) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - BLOOM Language Model
  - BLOOMZ (instruction-tuned version)
Source: Brand's website (https://huggingface.co) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free (Open Access via Hugging Face)
Source: Brand's website (https://huggingface.co) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Academic researchers, NLP developers, organizations requiring multilingual broad-spectrum data processing.
Source: Brand's website (https://huggingface.co) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Meta Llama (Series)
  - Mistral AI / Mixtral
  - Hugging Face (Platform)
  - EleutherAI (GPT-Neo/J/NeoX)
Source: Brand's website (https://huggingface.co) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.