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FLAN-UL2 vs. Orca

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute FLAN-UL2 Orca
Developer Google Microsoft
Current generation – –
Initial release 2023-03-03 2023-06-05
Instruct tuned Yes Yes
Coding No No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License Apache 2.0 Noncommercial
Model sizes 20B 13B
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FLAN-UL2

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.

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Orca

Orca is a descendant of LLaMA developed by Microsoft with finetuning on explanation traces obtained from GPT-4.

Orca-13B is a LLM developed by Microsoft. It is based on LLaMA with finetuning on complex explanation traces obtained from GPT-4. By using rich signals, Orca surpasses the performance of models such as Vicuna-13B on complex tasks. However, given its model backbone and the data used for its finetuning, Orca is under noncommercial use.

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