Compare Dolly vs. Llama

Dolly is an economical large language model that surprisingly demonstrates a notable level of instruction-following abilities similar to those seen in ChatGPT. While the Alpaca team's research revealed that cutting-edge models could be encouraged to excel in high-quality instruction adherence, our findings indicate that even older open-source models with earlier architectures can display remarkable behaviors when fine-tuned on a modest set of instructional training data. By utilizing an existing open-source model with 6 billion parameters from EleutherAI, Dolly has been slightly adjusted to enhance its ability to follow instructions, showcasing skills like brainstorming and generating text that were absent in its original form. This approach not only highlights the potential of older models but also opens new avenues for leveraging existing technologies in innovative ways.

Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI) stands as a cutting-edge foundational large language model aimed at helping researchers push the boundaries of their work within this area of artificial intelligence. By providing smaller yet highly effective models like Llama, the research community can benefit even if they lack extensive infrastructure, thus promoting greater accessibility in this dynamic and rapidly evolving domain. Creating smaller foundational models such as Llama is advantageous in the landscape of large language models, as it demands significantly reduced computational power and resources, facilitating the testing of innovative methods, confirming existing research, and investigating new applications. These foundational models leverage extensive unlabeled datasets, making them exceptionally suitable for fine-tuning across a range of tasks. We are offering Llama in multiple sizes (7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B parameters), accompanied by a detailed Llama model card that outlines our development process while adhering to our commitment to Responsible AI principles. By making these resources available, we aim to empower a broader segment of the research community to engage with and contribute to advancements in AI.