FastChat vs. Grok

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/

Overview

Grok is a mixture-of-experts model offered by xAI.

Grok is the flagship language model of xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk with close ties to X.com (FKA Twitter). Grok-1 was initialized released late in 2023 and later open-sourced in March of 2024. On March 28, 2024, Grok-1.5 was released with significantly better performance and a context length of 128,000 tokens.

Initial release: 2023-11-05

Reference

https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1

Further Reading

• https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1/tree/main