Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
LLMfamily

T5

Encoder-decoder transformer that casts every text task as text-to-text, pre-trained on the C4 corpus, for translation, summarisation and classification.

GoogleGoogleUSA
Google
Levelfamily
ClassLLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released23 Oct 2019
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

GoogleT5 11B belongs to this familyLLM
GoogleT5 base belongs to this familyLLM222.9M
GoogleT5 large belongs to this familyLLM737.67M
GoogleT5 small belongs to this familyLLM60.51M
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Text-to-text pretraining and summarisationexemplar

Identity

Developer
Google
Family
not in the notes
Released
23 Oct 2019 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Small (60M) to 11B; T5 1.1 retrained versions also released.
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
Model card languages: en, fr, ro, de, multilingual
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683
  2. github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-transfo... https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-transformer
  3. jumpstart-cache-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/models_manifest.json https://jumpstart-cache-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/models_manifest.json
  4. huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=translation&sort=down... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=translation&sort=downloads&limit=50
  5. huggingface.co/google-t5/t5-small https://huggingface.co/google-t5/t5-small
  6. huggingface.co/google-t5/t5-base https://huggingface.co/google-t5/t5-base

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "T5", https://aurion.semai.id/models/google-t5/, records of October 2026.