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GPTNeo vs. Koala

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GPTNeo

GPTNeo

Overview

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.



Initial release: 2021-03-21

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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

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 Noncommercial
Model Sizes 1.3B, 2.7B 7B, 13B