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Koala vs. Llama 3.3

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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 3.3

Llama 3.3

Overview

Llama 3.3 is Meta's end of 2024 Llama release, offering improved performance over Llama 3.2 with enhanced reasoning capabilities and better multilingual support.


Llama 3.3 represents Meta's continued advancement in open-source language models. Building upon the success of Llama 3.1 and 3.2, version 3.3 offers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks. The 70B parameter model provides performance competitive with much larger proprietary models while maintaining Meta's commitment to open-source accessibility for most commercial use cases.


Initial release: 2024-12-06

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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 70B