FLAN-T5 vs. OpenAssistant

LLM Comparison

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

Reference

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/flan-t5

Further Reading

OpenAssistant

Overview

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.

Initial release: 2023-04-15

Reference

https://open-assistant.io/

Further Reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddG2fM9i4Kk

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	FLAN-T5	OpenAssistant
Products & Features
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Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License	Apache 2.0	Varies
Model Sizes	3B, 11B	6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B

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