Russia Debuts MetalGPT-1, a 32-Billion-Parameter AI Model for Mining and Metallurgy
A new domain‑specific large language model from Norilsk Nickel promises to reshape industrial AI by mastering the highly technical language of mining and metallurgy.
Russian mining and metallurgical giant Norilsk Nickel has introduced MetalGPT‑1, its own domain‑tailored large language model designed specifically for the metallurgy and mining industries. The company says the system was engineered from the start to interpret specialized terminology, acronyms, and complex production workflows, resulting in fewer hallucinations and more reliable recommendations. The model was trained on 10 gigabytes of industry‑specific texts covering metallurgy and mining.
Superiority in Uniqueness
The company considers MetalGPT‑1’s competitive advantage to lie in the uniqueness of its training data. The model was trained on internal, previously inaccessible documents—technological protocols, corporate guidelines, production instructions, project and construction documentation, patents, technical reports, and scientific literature. To preserve trade secrecy while retaining industry knowledge, all materials underwent multistage cleaning and anonymization.
MetalGPT‑1 is also the first in the company’s family of large language models to be released under an open‑source license.
According to the company, an additional 500,000 question‑answer and instructional pairs were generated based on real production and scientific tasks, helping the model capture causal relationships in technological processes and deliver more error‑resistant outputs.
