Environmental Footprint of GenAI Research: Insights from the Moshi Foundation Model

arXiv:2604.11154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: New multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) are continuously being trained and deployed, following rapid development cycles. This generative AI frenzy is driving steady increases in energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and a plethora of other environmental impacts linked to datacenter construction and hardware manufacturing. Mitigating the environmental consequences of GenAI remains challenging due to an overall lack of transparency by t