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BLOOM vs. Koala

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BLOOM

Overview

A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.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

Koala

Overview

Released alongside Vicuna, Koala is one of many descendants of the Meta LLaMA model trained on dialogue data collected from the web. On the developers' benchmarks, Koala outperforms its sibling Alpaca, though its adoption has been significantly less than that of its other sibling, Vicuna. Due to its use of LLaMA, only research use is permitted.

Initial release: 2023-04-03

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Open Source
License Open RAIL-M v1 Noncommercial
Model Sizes 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B 7B, 13B