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BLOOMChat vs. Koala

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BLOOMChat

BLOOMChat

Overview

BLOOMChat is a variant of the BLOOM language model with instruction fine-tuning.


BLOOMChat is a 176 billion parameter language model based on BLOOM trained using SambaNova's Reconfigurable Data Units. Based on BLOOM, BLOOMChat is also multilingual, and provides a HuggingFace chat interface and model.


Initial release: 2023-05-19

Koala

Koala

Overview

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.



Initial release: 2023-04-03

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 Noncommercial
Model Sizes 175B 7B, 13B