What type of Hardware used in OpenAI ChatGPT Development.

Babar Ali Jamali
2 min readJan 27, 2023

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Let’s see hardware configuration details.

What type of Hardware used in OpenAI ChatGPT Development.

Let’s see hardware configuration.

The #OpenAI #ChatGPT used advanced computing specifications in the development of ChatGPT models vary based on the specific model and implementation.

They used such type to hardwares, such as the original #GPT model, which was trained by #OpenAI, was trained on a dataset of 40 GB of text data using a machine with 8 NVIDIA V100 GPUs and 256 GB of RAM.

The #GPT2 model, which was also trained by #OpenAI, was trained on a much larger dataset of 570GB of text data using a machine with 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs and 256 GB of RAM.

The #GPT3 model, which is the most advanced version of #ChatGPT, was trained on a much larger dataset and more powerful machine.

The model was trained using 175 billion parameters on machine with several powerful Nvidia A100 GPUs, and terabytes of RAM.

When you are fine-tuning the pre-trained models, the computational power requirements are significantly lower, you can use a machine with a single GPU and 8GB of RAM. However, it depends on the size of the dataset you want to fine-tune on, and the size of the model you are fine-tuning.

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Babar Ali Jamali

I am IT Professional, Google Cyber Security, IBM's Certified Cyber Security Analyst, Web Developer, Vulnerability/Malware Analysis and Python Programmer.