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GPTNeo vs. OpenAssistant

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute GPTNeo OpenAssistant
Developer EleutherAI, Together LAION
Current generation – –
Initial release 2021-03-21 2023-04-15
Instruct tuned No Yes
Coding No No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License Apache 2.0 Varies
Model sizes 1.3B, 2.7B 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B
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GPTNeo

GPTNeo is a model released by EleutherAI to try and provide an open source model with capabilities similar to OpenAI's GPT-3 model. One of the earliest such models, GPTNeo was trained on The Pile, Eleuther's corpus of web text.

OpenAssistant

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.

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