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Koala vs. Llama 3.1

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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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Llama 3.1

Llama 3.1

Overview

Llama 3.1 added a 405B flagship model that was the first open-source model competitive with frontier proprietary models, alongside updated 8B and 70B variants with longer context and improved tool use.


Llama 3.1 was a landmark release for open-source AI. The 405B model achieved parity with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on many benchmarks, marking the first time an open model reached the proprietary frontier. All models support a 128K token context window, multilingual generation in eight languages, and built-in tool-calling capabilities. The permissive license allows commercial use for most organisations, making Llama 3.1 a popular foundation for fine-tuning and self-hosted deployments.


Initial release: 2024-07-23

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Koala

Llama 3.1
Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Custom (Commercial OK)
Model Sizes 7B, 13B 8B, 70B, 405B

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Other Llama 3.1 Comparisons

Llama 3.1 vs. Alpaca Llama 3.1 vs. Cerebras-GPT Llama 3.1 vs. DeepSeek Llama 3.1 vs. Dolly Llama 3.1 vs. Falcon Llama 3.1 vs. FastChat Llama 3.1 vs. FLAN-T5 Llama 3.1 vs. FLAN-UL2 Llama 3.1 vs. Gemma Llama 3.1 vs. Gemma 2 Llama 3.1 vs. GPT-J Llama 3.1 vs. GPT4All Llama 3.1 vs. GPTNeo Llama 3.1 vs. Grok Llama 3.1 vs. Guanaco Llama 3.1 vs. Koala Llama 3.1 vs. LLaMA Llama 3.1 vs. Llama 2 Llama 3.1 vs. Llama 3 Llama 3.1 vs. Llama 3.2 Llama 3.1 vs. Llama 3.3 Llama 3.1 vs. Mistral Llama 3.1 vs. MPT Llama 3.1 vs. OpenAssistant Llama 3.1 vs. OpenLLaMA Llama 3.1 vs. OPT Llama 3.1 vs. Orca Llama 3.1 vs. Phi Llama 3.1 vs. Pythia Llama 3.1 vs. Qwen Llama 3.1 vs. RedPajama-INCITE Llama 3.1 vs. StableLM Llama 3.1 vs. StableVicuna Llama 3.1 vs. Vicuna Llama 3.1 vs. WizardLM

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