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LLaMA vs. OpenAssistant

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LLaMA

Overview

The model that launched a frenzy in open-source instruct-finetuned models, LLaMA is Meta AI's more parameter-efficient, open-source alternative to large commercial LLMs. Despite being smaller than many commercial models, LLaMA outperformed the gold standard GPT-3 on many benchmarks, with the primary drawback being that its access remains gated to researchers with restrictions on commercial use.

Initial release: 2023-02-24

Reference

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/

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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

Reference

https://open-assistant.io/

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Varies
Model Sizes 7B, 13B, 33B, 65B 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B

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