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BLOOMChat vs. FLAN-T5

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BLOOMChat

BLOOMChat

Overview

BLOOMChat is a variant of the BLOOM language model with instruction fine-tuning.


BLOOMChat is a 176 billion parameter language model based on BLOOM trained using SambaNova's Reconfigurable Data Units. Based on BLOOM, BLOOMChat is also multilingual, and provides a HuggingFace chat interface and model.


Initial release: 2023-05-19

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 Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 175B 3B, 11B