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BLOOM vs. Grok

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BLOOM

BLOOM

Overview

BLOOM is a open source LLM developed as part of the BigScience Workshop by Hugging Face in collaboration with other research organizations.


A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.


Initial release: 2022-07-06

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Grok

Grok

Overview

Grok is a mixture-of-experts model offered by xAI.


Grok is the flagship language model of xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk with close ties to X.com (FKA Twitter). Grok-1 was initialized released late in 2023 and later open-sourced in March of 2024. On March 28, 2024, Grok-1.5 was released with significantly better performance and a context length of 128,000 tokens.


Initial release: 2023-11-05

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Open Source
License Open RAIL-M v1 Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B 314B