A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 GPT-J
|
 OpenAssistant
|
|---|---|---|
| Developer | EleutherAI | LAION |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2021-06-09 | 2023-04-15 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | Yes |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Varies |
| Model sizes | 6B | 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B |
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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.
OpenAssistant is a project organized by LAION with aim of providing an open source alternative to ChatGPT. Its primary effort is to collected instruct examples to then tune existing LLMs. The first major release is available as part of Hugging Face's HuggingChat.
