FLAN-T5 vs. Pythia
LLM Comparison
FLAN-T5
Overview
FLAN-T5 is a finetuned version of Google's popular T5 model with instruct-finetuning. As stated in the model repository's introduction, compared to T5, FLAN-T5 is "just better at everything." With its permissive license, FLAN-T5 has become a popular option for a starting instruct model.
Initial release: 2022-12-06
Further Reading
Pythia
Overview
The most recent (as of May 2023) effort from EleutherAI, Pythia is a set of LLMs trained on The Pile. While it appears to outperform OPT and GPTNeo, its performance against GPT-J is unclear. Versions of Pythia have also been instruct-tuned by the team at Together.
Initial release: 2023-02-13
Reference
Further Reading
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Sapling APIMore Comparisons
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| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Model Sizes | 3B, 11B | 1B, 1.4B, 2.8B, 6.9B, 12B |