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Chronos (time series models)

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Maintained by Amazon (Amazon Web Services)134

Chronos is Amazon's family of pretrained time-series forecasting models. It includes the original T5-based Chronos models (March 2024, 8M to 710M parameters), the patch-based Chronos-Bolt models (November 2024), and Chronos-2 (October 2025), a 120M-parameter encoder-only model that adds multivariate and covariate-informed forecasting.12

Last reviewedEntry updated Documented release Mar 13, 2024

Releases assessed

Each release is assessed on its own. This family has no family-wide openness label.
Releases in the Chronos (time series models) family
ReleaseWeightsTier (USASI rubric v0.1)LicenseReleased
Chronos-2Weights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weightApache-2.0, Apache-2.0Oct 20, 2025

What it is useful for

The repository describes zero-shot probabilistic forecasting, with local inference through the chronos-forecasting package and production deployment on Amazon SageMaker.12

Organization context

U.S. eligibility

Project eligibility rests on documented governing or maintaining entities, not on contributors.

Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control

The models are published by Amazon under the amazon-science GitHub organization and the amazon Hugging Face organization, and Amazon's science blog and the Chronos-2 report attribute the work to Amazon Web Services, a segment of Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc. has its principal executive offices in Seattle, Washington, per its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K.1345

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Sources

  1. 1.
    amazon-science/chronos-forecasting README (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    Amazon Science (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    amazon/chronos-2 model card (external site: huggingface.co)

    Amazon (Hugging Face) · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  3. 3.
    Introducing Chronos-2: From univariate to universal forecasting (external site: amazon.science)

    Amazon Science · Announcement · published Oct 20, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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  5. 5.
    Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (external site: sec.gov)

    Amazon.com, Inc. (via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR) · Filing · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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