FLAN-T5 vs. Grok
LLM Comparison
FLAN-T5
Overview
FLAN-T5 is a finetuned version of Google's popular T5 model with instruct-finetuning. As stated in the model repository's introduction, compared to T5, FLAN-T5 is "just better at everything." With its permissive license, FLAN-T5 has become a popular option for a starting instruct model.
Initial release: 2022-12-06
Further Reading
Grok
Overview
Grok is a mixture-of-experts model offered by xAI.
Grok is the flagship language model of xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk with close ties to X.com (FKA Twitter). Grok-1 was initialized released late in 2023 and later open-sourced in March of 2024. On March 28, 2024, Grok-1.5 was released with significantly better performance and a context length of 128,000 tokens.
Initial release: 2023-11-05
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Further Reading
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Sapling APIMore Comparisons
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| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Model Sizes | 3B, 11B | 314B |