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Koala vs. OpenAssistant

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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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OpenAssistant

OpenAssistant

Overview

OpenAssistant is a project organized by LAION with aim of providing an open source alternative to ChatGPT. Its primary effort is to collected instruct examples to then tune existing LLMs. The first major release is available as part of Hugging Face's HuggingChat.



Initial release: 2023-04-15

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Koala

OpenAssistant
Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Varies
Model Sizes 7B, 13B 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B

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