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Alpaca vs. Dolly

LLM Comparison


Alpaca

Alpaca

Overview

Alpaca is an instruction-finetuned LLM based off of LLaMA.


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

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Dolly

Dolly

Overview

Dolly is an LLM trained using the Databricks machine learning platform. Originally released without instruct-finetuning, Dolly v2 included tuning on the Stanford Alpaca dataset.



Initial release: 2023-03-24

Further Reading

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial MIT
Model Sizes 7B 3B, 12B