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Dolly vs. OpenAssistant

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute Dolly OpenAssistant
Developer Databricks LAION
Current generation – –
Initial release 2023-03-24 2023-04-15
Instruct tuned Yes Yes
Coding No No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License MIT Varies
Model sizes 3B, 12B 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B
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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.

OpenAssistant

OpenAssistant is a project organized by LAION with aim of providing an open source alternative to ChatGPT. Its primary effort is to collected instruct examples to then tune existing LLMs. The first major release is available as part of Hugging Face's HuggingChat.

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