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FLAN-UL2 vs. Llama 2

LLM Comparison


FLAN-UL2

FLAN-UL2

Overview

Similar to FLAN-T5, FLAN-UL2 is a model based on Google's popular T5 architecture with an upgraded pre-training procedure dubbed UL2. On most NLU benchmarks, FLAN-UL2 outperforms FLAN-T5 by a significant margin.



Initial release: 2023-03-03

Llama 2

Llama 2

Overview

Llama 2 is Meta AI's open source LLM available both research and commercial use case.


The successor to LLaMA (henceforce "Llama 1"), Llama 2 was trained on 40% more data, has double the context length, and was tuned on a large dataset of human preferences (over 1 million such annotations) to ensure helpfulness and safety. It outperforms other open source models on both natural language understanding datasets as well as in head-to-head face-offs.


Initial release: 2023-07-18

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FLAN-UL2

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Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 Custom (Commercial OK)
Model Sizes 20B 7B, 13B, 70B