Alpaca vs. Orca
LLM Comparison
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
Further Reading
Orca
Overview
Orca is a descendant of LLaMA developed by Microsoft with finetuning on explanation traces obtained from GPT-4.
Orca-13B is a LLM developed by Microsoft. It is based on LLaMA with finetuning on complex explanation traces obtained from GPT-4. By using rich signals, Orca surpasses the performance of models such as Vicuna-13B on complex tasks. However, given its model backbone and the data used for its finetuning, Orca is under noncommercial use.
Initial release: 2023-06-05
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Further Reading
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Sapling APIMore Comparisons
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| License | Noncommercial | Noncommercial |
| Model Sizes | 7B | 13B |