# CO₂ Emissions and Models Performance: Insights from the Open LLM Leaderboard

DevFeed: [CO₂ Emissions and Models Performance: Insights from the Open LLM Leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/co2-emissions-and-models-performance-insights-from-the-open-llm-leaderboard-7316.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-emissions-analysis>)

Author: Alina Lozovskaya; Nathan Habib; Albert Villanova del Moral; Clémentine Fourrier

Published: 2025-01-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [open-llm-leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-llm-leaderboard.md>), [AI Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-inference.md>), [LLMs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llms.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [energy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy.md>), [energy-efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy-efficiency.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leaderboard.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [open-llm-leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-llm-leaderboard.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

## AI overview

The article analyzes CO₂ emissions from evaluating large language models on the Open LLM Leaderboard. It explains a heuristic based on evaluation time, hardware energy use, and electricity carbon intensity, then examines emissions and performance trends across 2,742 models and several model families.

## Source excerpt

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