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FastChat vs. Phi

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FastChat

FastChat

Overview

FastChat is the open platform for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chatbots developed and maintained by LMSYS.


FastChat is an open-source library for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chat systems from LMSYS. It includes training and evaluation code, a model serving system, a Web GUI, and a finetuning pipeline, and is the de facto system for Vicuna as well as FastChat-T5. FastChat also includes the Chatbot Arena for benchmarking LLMs.


Initial release: 2023-04-28

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 Apache 2.0 MIT
Model Sizes 3B 1.3B, 2.7B, 3.8B, 7B, 14B