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Koala vs. Phi

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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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Phi

Phi

Overview

Phi is a series of compact language models developed by Microsoft using high-quality synthetic data and curated web content. Phi-3 and Phi-3.5 (2024) significantly raised the bar for small models, with the 3.8B Phi-3 Mini matching much larger open-source models on key benchmarks.


Phi-1 and Phi-2 are 1.3B and 2.7B parameter language models, respectively, developed by Microsoft to demonstrate the ability of smaller language models trained on high-quality data. In April 2024, Phi-3 was released across Mini (3.8B), Small (7B), and Medium (14B) sizes. Phi-3 Mini achieves performance competitive with Llama 3 8B and Mistral 7B at a fraction of the compute, making it ideal for edge and constrained-resource deployments. Phi-3.5 Mini and MoE followed in August 2024 with further improvements.


Initial release: 2023-06-20

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial MIT
Model Sizes 7B, 13B 1.3B, 2.7B, 3.8B, 7B, 14B

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

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