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Gemma 2

Gemma 2

Overview

Gemma 2 succeeds the Gemma family of lightweight open models from Google built using the same processes used for the the larger Gemini models.


Gemma 2 is the successor to the Gemma family of open models, including larer models (9B and 27B parameters) with outsized performance across benchmarks. Using a combination of techniques such as training on twice as much data, knowledge distillation, and architectural improvements such as sliding window attention, logit soft-capping, and model merging, Gemma 2 outperforms models of similar size (such as Llama 3), with the 27B parameter model being competitive with models more than twice its size (such as Llama 70B).


Initial release: 2024-06-27

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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License Custom Noncommercial
Model Sizes 2.6B, 9B, 27B 7B, 13B

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Other Koala Comparisons

Koala vs. Alpaca Koala vs. Cerebras-GPT Koala vs. Dolly Koala vs. Falcon Koala vs. FastChat Koala vs. FLAN-T5 Koala vs. FLAN-UL2 Koala vs. Gemma Koala vs. Gemma 2 Koala vs. GPT-J Koala vs. GPT4All Koala vs. GPTNeo Koala vs. Grok Koala vs. Guanaco Koala vs. LLaMA Koala vs. Llama 2 Koala vs. Llama 3 Koala vs. Mistral Koala vs. MPT Koala vs. OpenAssistant Koala vs. OpenLLaMA Koala vs. OPT Koala vs. Orca Koala vs. Phi Koala vs. Pythia Koala vs. RedPajama-INCITE Koala vs. StableLM Koala vs. StableVicuna Koala vs. Vicuna Koala vs. WizardLM

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