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BLOOM vs. FLAN-T5

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BLOOM

BLOOM

Overview

BLOOM is a open source LLM developed as part of the BigScience Workshop by Hugging Face in collaboration with other research organizations.


A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.


Initial release: 2022-07-06

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FLAN-T5

FLAN-T5

Overview

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.



Initial release: 2022-12-06

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Open RAIL-M v1 Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B 3B, 11B