A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 GPT-J
|
 Llama
|
|---|---|---|
| Developer | EleutherAI | Meta |
| Current generation | – | Llama 4 |
| Initial release | 2021-06-09 | 2023-02-24 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | Yes |
| Coding | No | Yes |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Llama Community License |
| Model sizes | 6B | 109B (17B active), 400B (17B active) |
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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.
Llama is Meta's open-weight model family. Llama 4 was its last major generation; Meta's active assistant-model development has shifted to Muse.
Meta introduced LLaMA in February 2023, helping catalyze the modern open-weight model ecosystem. Llama 2 added commercial use and chat tuning, while the Llama 3 series improved scale, multilingual support, and instruction following. Llama 4, released in April 2025, introduced native multimodality and a mixture-of-experts architecture. Meta subsequently shifted its actively promoted assistant-model line to the proprietary Muse family, but Llama models remain widely used and deployed.
