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Alpaca vs. Llama 3.3

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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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Llama 3.3

Llama 3.3

Overview

Llama 3.3 is Meta's end of 2024 Llama release, offering improved performance over Llama 3.2 with enhanced reasoning capabilities and better multilingual support.


Llama 3.3 represents Meta's continued advancement in open-source language models. Building upon the success of Llama 3.1 and 3.2, version 3.3 offers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks. The 70B parameter model provides performance competitive with much larger proprietary models while maintaining Meta's commitment to open-source accessibility for most commercial use cases.


Initial release: 2024-12-06

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Custom (Commercial OK)
Model Sizes 7B 70B