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Dolly vs. Mistral

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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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Mistral

Mistral

Overview

Developed by some of the researchers behind Llama, the Mistral large language models are the gold standard for accessible and performant open source models.


Mistral AI offers 7B and a mixture-of-experts 8x7B open source models competitive or better than commercial models of similar size. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, the Mistral models are now also available via most cloud vendors. After releasing their open source models, Mistral AI has also begun offering Small, Large, and Embed models via their business API.


Initial release: 2023-09-27

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License MIT Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 3B, 12B 7B, 8x7B