A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 Alpaca
|
 OpenAssistant
|
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Stanford | LAION |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2023-03-13 | 2023-04-15 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | Yes |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Noncommercial | Varies |
| Model sizes | 7B | 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B |
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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.
OpenAssistant is a project organized by LAION with aim of providing an open source alternative to ChatGPT. Its primary effort is to collected instruct examples to then tune existing LLMs. The first major release is available as part of Hugging Face's HuggingChat.
