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GPT-J vs. Pythia

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GPT-J

GPT-J

Overview

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.



Initial release: 2021-06-09

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Pythia

Pythia

Overview

The most recent (as of May 2023) effort from EleutherAI, Pythia is a set of LLMs trained on The Pile. While it appears to outperform OPT and GPTNeo, its performance against GPT-J is unclear. Versions of Pythia have also been instruct-tuned by the team at Together.



Initial release: 2023-02-13

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Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 6B 1B, 1.4B, 2.8B, 6.9B, 12B