Grok vs. WizardLM

Overview

Grok is a mixture-of-experts model offered by xAI.

Grok is the flagship language model of xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk with close ties to X.com (FKA Twitter). Grok-1 was initialized released late in 2023 and later open-sourced in March of 2024. On March 28, 2024, Grok-1.5 was released with significantly better performance and a context length of 128,000 tokens.

Initial release: 2023-11-05

Reference

https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1

Further Reading

• https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1/tree/main

Overview

WizardLM is a variant of LLaMA trained with complex instructions.

WizardLM is a LLM based on LLaMA trained using a new method, called Evol-Instruct, on complex instruction data. By using AI to "evolve" instructions, WizardLM outperforms similar LLaMA-based LLMs trained on simpler instruction data. On the 6th of July, 2023, WizardLM V1.1 was released with significantly improved performance, and as of 15 April 2024, WizardLM-2 was released with state-of-the-art performance.

Initial release: 2023-05-26

Reference

https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM

Further Reading

• https://huggingface.co/WizardLM
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12244
• https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/142iw20/official_wizardlm30b_v10_released_can_beat/