Dolly
Dolly is an LLM trained using the Databricks machine learning platform. Originally released without instruct-finetuning, Dolly v2 included tuning on the Stanford Alpaca dataset.
A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 Dolly
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 FLAN-T5
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|---|---|---|
| Developer | Databricks | |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2023-03-24 | 2022-12-06 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | Yes |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Model sizes | 3B, 12B | 3B, 11B |
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Dolly is an LLM trained using the Databricks machine learning platform. Originally released without instruct-finetuning, Dolly v2 included tuning on the Stanford Alpaca dataset.
FLAN-T5 is a finetuned version of Google's popular T5 model with instruct-finetuning. As stated in the model repository's introduction, compared to T5, FLAN-T5 is "just better at everything." With its permissive license, FLAN-T5 has become a popular option for a starting instruct model.