A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 FLAN-T5
|
 WizardLM
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|---|---|---|
| Developer | WizardLM | |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2022-12-06 | 2023-05-26 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | Yes |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Noncommercial |
| Model sizes | 3B, 11B | 7B, 13B, 70B, 8x22B |
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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.
WizardLM is a variant of LLaMA trained with complex instructions.
WizardLM is a LLM based on LLaMA trained using a new method, called Evol-Instruct, on complex instruction data. By using AI to "evolve" instructions, WizardLM outperforms similar LLaMA-based LLMs trained on simpler instruction data. On the 6th of July, 2023, WizardLM V1.1 was released with significantly improved performance, and as of 15 April 2024, WizardLM-2 was released with state-of-the-art performance.
