Koala vs. OpenAssistant
LLM Comparison
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
Further Reading
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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Further Reading
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Sapling APIMore Comparisons
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| License | Noncommercial | Varies |
| Model Sizes | 7B, 13B | 6.7B, 6.9B, 7B, 12B, 30B |