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Alpaca vs. GPT4All

LLM Comparison


Alpaca

Alpaca

Overview

Alpaca is an instruction-finetuned LLM based off of LLaMA.


The first of many instruct-finetuned versions of LLaMA, Alpaca is an instruction-following model introduced by Stanford researchers. Impressively, with only $600 of compute spend, the researchers demonstrated that on qualitative benchmarks Alpaca performed similarly to OpenAI's text-davinci-003, a significantly larger model.


Initial release: 2023-03-13

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GPT4All

GPT4All

Overview

Describing itself as an ecosystem for open-source chatbots, Nomic provides a framework for training LLMs with LLaMA and GPT-J backbones.



Initial release: 2023-03-26

Further Reading

Looking for an LLM API/SDK that works out of the box? No prompts or ad hoc guardrails.

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Varies
Model Sizes 7B 7B, 13B