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Alpaca vs. BLOOM

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Alpaca

Overview

The first of many instruct-finetuned versions of LLaMA, Alpaca is an instruction-following model introduced by Stanford researchers. Impressively, with only $600 of compute spend, the researchers demonstrated that on qualitative benchmarks Alpaca performed similarly to OpenAI's text-davinci-003, a significantly larger model.

Initial release: 2023-03-13

BLOOM

Overview

A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.

Initial release: 2022-07-06

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Open RAIL-M v1
Model Sizes 7B 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B