A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 GPT-J
|
 GPTNeo
|
|---|---|---|
| Developer | EleutherAI | EleutherAI, Together |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2021-06-09 | 2021-03-21 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | No |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Model sizes | 6B | 1.3B, 2.7B |
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GPT-J is a model released by EleutherAI shortly after its release of GPTNeo, with the aim of delveoping an open source model with capabilities similar to OpenAI's GPT-3 model. With a larger size than GPTNeo, GPT-J also performs better on various benchmarks.
GPTNeo is a model released by EleutherAI to try and provide an open source model with capabilities similar to OpenAI's GPT-3 model. One of the earliest such models, GPTNeo was trained on The Pile, Eleuther's corpus of web text.
