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Dolly vs. FLAN-T5

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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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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

Further Reading

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License MIT Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 3B, 12B 3B, 11B