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Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI
Multimodal model · China ·May 2024

Emu2

Multimodal Open Weights
37B
Parameters

About Emu2

Emu2 is an AI model developed by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI, in the multimodal category, released in 2024, made available as an open-weights model with 37B params.

On this page you'll find Emu2's full specifications. Review provider pricing and benchmark scores below, or compare Emu2 head-to-head with other multimodal models.

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Sized to what Emu2 actually needs (~8k context at Q4), not to the biggest GPU: Good = cheapest that runs it, Better = best value, Best = most headroom. Speed is a hardware estimate; anything past ~120 tok/s is shown as instant.

Best
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Consumer GPU · ~$1,999
~75.2 tok/s
Q4 · fits full context · up to 8k ctx
Runs with: ExLlamaV2, KoboldCpp, LM Studio
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Software support

·ExLlamaV2 ·KoboldCpp ·LM Studio ·MLX ·Ollama ·SGLang ·TensorRT-LLM ·llama.cpp ·vLLM ?KTransformers ?text-generation-webui

✓ measured · · compatible · — not supported. Informational only — speed is hardware-based.

Consumer GPU
9.5–75.2 tok/s
4 options →
Apple
11.9–31.7 tok/s
17 options →
Datacenter GPU
32.1–120+ tok/s
13 options →

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Frequently asked questions

What is Emu2? ▶

Emu2 is an AI model developed by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI, in the multimodal category, released in 2024. It is tracked on GenAIList with its specifications, benchmark scores and provider pricing.

Who created Emu2? ▶

Emu2 was developed by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI and released in 2024.

Is Emu2 open source or proprietary? ▶

Emu2 ships as an open-weights model: you can download and self-host the weights, though the licence may place some restrictions on use.

How much does Emu2 cost? ▶

Pricing for Emu2 depends on the provider. See the providers table on this page for the latest API rates.

How does Emu2 perform on benchmarks? ▶

Benchmark scores for Emu2 are listed on this page as they are published. You can compare it head-to-head with other models on the GenAIList compare tool.

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