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Alpaca vs. LLaMA

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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

Reference

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

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LLaMA

Overview

The model that launched a frenzy in open-source instruct-finetuned models, LLaMA is Meta AI's more parameter-efficient, open-source alternative to large commercial LLMs. Despite being smaller than many commercial models, LLaMA outperformed the gold standard GPT-3 on many benchmarks, with the primary drawback being that its access remains gated to researchers with restrictions on commercial use.

Initial release: 2023-02-24

Reference

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/

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Alpaca

LLaMA
Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Noncommercial
Model Sizes 7B 7B, 13B, 33B, 65B

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