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Phi vs. Pythia

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Phi

Phi

Overview

Phi is a series of compact language models developed by Microsoft using textbooks and synthetic data.


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. Despite its size and not having an instruct finetuned counterpart, the Phi-2 model is well-suited to research and experimentation given its size and MIT license.


Initial release: 2023-06-20

Pythia

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

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Products & Features
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Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License MIT Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 1.3B, 2.7B 1B, 1.4B, 2.8B, 6.9B, 12B