Dolly Reviews

Dolly Description

Dolly is an inexpensive LLM that demonstrates a surprising amount of the capabilities of ChatGPT. Whereas the work from the Alpaca team showed that state-of-the-art models could be coaxed into high quality instruction-following behavior, we find that even years-old open source models with much earlier architectures exhibit striking behaviors when fine tuned on a small corpus of instruction training data. Dolly uses an open source model with 6 billion parameters from EleutherAI, which is modified to include new capabilities like brainstorming and text creation that were not present in the original.