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title: "Aramco unveils Metabrain, a 250bn-parameter industrial AI model"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-metabrain-2024"
language: "en"
event_date: "2024-03-04"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "AI"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# Aramco unveils Metabrain, a 250bn-parameter industrial AI model

- Event date: 4 March 2024 (2024-03-04)
- Topic: AI
- In this story: Aramco, Metabrain, Amin Nasser
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-metabrain-2024

At LEAP 2024 Aramco unveiled Aramco Metabrain AI, which the company describes as the industry's first generative AI model, with 250 billion parameters trained on 7 trillion data points from its roughly 90-year history. Aramco said the model combines language models, quantum computing and real-time analytics to assist with tasks such as analyzing drilling plans and geological data, and that it planned a 1 trillion-parameter version by the end of 2024. Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said tasks that took hours can now be completed in seconds.

## Key figures

- parameters (count): 250,000,000,000
- training data points (count): 7,000,000,000,000

## Sources

1. [Saudi Aramco introduces world's first industrial AI model](https://gulfnews.com/business/markets/saudi-aramco-introduces-worlds-first-industrial-ai-model-1.1709801947071) — Gulf News, 2024-03-07
2. [Aramco reveals 250B LLM; GAIA backed by $1 billion funding](https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/aramco-reveals-250b-llm-gaia-backed) — Middle East AI News, 2024-03-07

Archive report. Written in 2026 from contemporary sources and dated to the day the event happened.

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