GPT4All
Describing itself as an ecosystem for open-source chatbots, Nomic provides a framework for training LLMs with LLaMA and GPT-J backbones.
A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 GPT4All
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 Koala
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|---|---|---|
| Developer | Nomic AI | BAIR |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2023-03-26 | 2023-04-03 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | Yes |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Varies | Noncommercial |
| Model sizes | 7B, 13B | 7B, 13B |
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Describing itself as an ecosystem for open-source chatbots, Nomic provides a framework for training LLMs with LLaMA and GPT-J backbones.
Released alongside Vicuna, Koala is one of many descendants of the Meta LLaMA model trained on dialogue data collected from the web. On the developers' benchmarks, Koala outperforms its sibling Alpaca, though its adoption has been significantly less than that of its other sibling, Vicuna. Due to its use of LLaMA, only research use is permitted.