BLOOMChat vs. FastChat

Overview

BLOOMChat is a variant of the BLOOM language model with instruction fine-tuning.

BLOOMChat is a 176 billion parameter language model based on BLOOM trained using SambaNova's Reconfigurable Data Units. Based on BLOOM, BLOOMChat is also multilingual, and provides a HuggingFace chat interface and model.

Initial release: 2023-05-19

Reference

https://sambanova.ai/blog/introducing-bloomchat-176b-the-multilingual-chat-based-llm/

Further Reading

• https://huggingface.co/spaces/sambanovasystems/BLOOMChat
• https://huggingface.co/sambanovasystems/BLOOMChat-176B-v1
• https://github.com/sambanova/bloomchat

Overview

FastChat is the open platform for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chatbots developed and maintained by LMSYS.

FastChat is an open-source library for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chat systems from LMSYS. It includes training and evaluation code, a model serving system, a Web GUI, and a finetuning pipeline, and is the de facto system for Vicuna as well as FastChat-T5. FastChat also includes the Chatbot Arena for benchmarking LLMs.

Initial release: 2023-04-28

Reference

https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat

Further Reading

• https://chat.lmsys.org/
• https://lmsys.org/projects/