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Dolly vs. Llama 2

LLM Comparison


Dolly

Dolly

Overview

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.



Initial release: 2023-03-24

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Llama 2

Llama 2

Overview

Llama 2 is Meta AI's open source LLM available both research and commercial use case.


The successor to LLaMA (henceforce "Llama 1"), Llama 2 was trained on 40% more data, has double the context length, and was tuned on a large dataset of human preferences (over 1 million such annotations) to ensure helpfulness and safety. It outperforms other open source models on both natural language understanding datasets as well as in head-to-head face-offs.


Initial release: 2023-07-18

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License MIT Custom (Commercial OK)
Model Sizes 3B, 12B 7B, 13B, 70B