5 open-source alternatives to ChatGPT
OpenAI’s ChatGPT explosive popularity provides a glimpse of the potential for large language models to revolutionize various applications.
However, its success has also sparked an AI arms race among technology giants like Microsoft and Google, leading to increased competition and reduced transparency in the field.
Fortunately, there are efforts within the community to develop open-source models that match the performance of proprietary LLMs. These open-source models offer research benefits by sharing results and they prevent a few dominant companies from monopolizing the LLM market.
In my latest TechTalks article, I take a look at five open-source alternatives to ChatGPT:
LLaMA by Meta: A family of pretrained LLMs that can be fine-tuned for downstream tasks
Alpaca by Stanford: A version of LLaMA fine-tuned on instruction-following examples from ChatGPT
Vicuna by various researchers: Similar to Alpaca, but trained on samples from ShareGPT
Dolly by Databricks: Instruction-following LLMs based on EleutherAI models fine-tuned on manually composed examples
Open Assistant: A large community-driven project that uses various base models trained on examples gathered by volunteers
Read the article on TechTalks.
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