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GPT4All vs. Koala

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GPT4All

GPT4All

Overview

Describing itself as an ecosystem for open-source chatbots, Nomic provides a framework for training LLMs with LLaMA and GPT-J backbones.



Initial release: 2023-03-26

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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

Further Reading

Looking for an LLM API/SDK that works out of the box? No prompts or ad hoc guardrails.

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License Varies Noncommercial
Model Sizes 7B, 13B 7B, 13B