A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.
| Attribute |
 Koala
|
 StableLM
|
|---|---|---|
| Developer | BAIR | Stability AI |
| Current generation | – | – |
| Initial release | 2023-04-03 | 2023-04-19 |
| Instruct tuned | Yes | No |
| Coding | No | No |
| Finetuning | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Noncommercial | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Model sizes | 7B, 13B | 3B, 7B |
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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.
The StableLM series of language models is Stability AI's entry into the LLM space. Trained on The Pile, the initial release included 3B and 7B parameter models with larger models on the way.
