bloom 1b1
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Adoption by company size
| Segment | Share of reviews |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 55.6% |
| Mid-Market | 22.2% |
| Enterprise | 22.2% |
Quarterly history
| Quarter | Reviews | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 1 | 5.0 |
| 2026 Q3 | 16 | 4.2 |
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What reviewers say
Lightweight and Accessible BLOOM-1B1 for Fast Text Generation Prototyping
“I like how lightweight and accessible BLOOM-1B1 is for experimenting with text generation. It is easy to load through Hugging Face Transformers, and the relatively small model size makes testing and prototyping faster without needing a very powerful setup.”
Bloom - 1b1: Impressive Multilingual Performance in a Compact Model
“I have been using Bloom - 1b1 for a while now and honestly for something like this small just over 1B parameters it holds up well. Its a part of Bigscience BLOOM family, so you get that multilingual training which is the best part of it.”
Open-Source Powerhouse: 46+ Languages and Up to 1B Parameters
“It actually supports more than 46 languages and 13 programing langs,and the best part it is open source, but still as the name suggests, it supports upto 1 billion parameters and that is actually huge for longer generations like I require”