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Koala vs. Llama 3.2

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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 3.2

Llama 3.2

Overview

Llama 3.2 introduced multimodal vision models (11B and 90B) alongside lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) designed for on-device and edge deployment.


Llama 3.2 expanded Meta's open-source model family in two directions. The vision models (11B and 90B) are the first Llama models to support image understanding, enabling tasks such as chart analysis, document parsing, and visual question answering. The lightweight text models (1B and 3B) are optimised for on-device inference, with quantised versions available for mobile and edge hardware. All models benefit from the architectural improvements introduced in Llama 3.1.


Initial release: 2024-09-25

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Products & Features
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Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Custom (Commercial OK)
Model Sizes 7B, 13B 1B, 3B, 11B, 90B