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.
Brand Authority Index (BAI): 82/100
Archetype: Challenger
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Part of: Hugging Face
https://optimly.ai/brand/bigscience-bloom
Last analyzed: April 10, 2026
Founded: 2021 (Project Start)
Headquarters: Distributed / Paris, France (Hugging Face / CNRS)