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Alpaca vs. OpenAssistant

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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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OpenAssistant

OpenAssistant

Overview

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.



Initial release: 2023-04-15

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Alpaca

OpenAssistant
Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Varies
Model Sizes 7B 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B

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