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Merouane Debbah

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A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language Model

Imad Lakim, Ebtesam Almazrouei, Ibrahim Abu Alhaol et al. · 2026 · 10.18653/v1/2022.bigscience-1.8

As ever larger language models grow more ubiquitous, it is crucial to consider their environmental impact. Characterised by extreme size and resource use, recent generations of models have been criticised for their voracious appetite for compute, and thus significant carbon footprint. Although reporting of carbon impac …

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