Koala vs. Orca
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
Orca
Overview
Orca is a descendant of LLaMA developed by Microsoft with finetuning on explanation traces obtained from GPT-4.
Orca-13B is a LLM developed by Microsoft. It is based on LLaMA with finetuning on complex explanation traces obtained from GPT-4. By using rich signals, Orca surpasses the performance of models such as Vicuna-13B on complex tasks. However, given its model backbone and the data used for its finetuning, Orca is under noncommercial use.
Initial release: 2023-06-05
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Further Reading
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| License | Noncommercial | Noncommercial |
| Model Sizes | 7B, 13B | 13B |