Crosspost: The LLama Effect
How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
The accidental leak of Llama has become a significant catalyst for innovation in the open source LLM space.
Preface:
The accidental leak of Llama, a large language model (LLM), has sparked a wave of innovation in the open source LLM space. Llama, released by Meta AI, matched the performance of models like GPT-3 despite being smaller in size. After its leak on 4chan, numerous projects and models based on Llama have emerged. Stanford University released Alpaca, an instruction-following model, while researchers from UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, and UC San Diego open sourced Vicuna, a fine-tuned version of Llama. Other projects include Koala from Berkeley AI Research Institute (BAIR), ChatLLama from Nebuly, and FreedomGPT, which is based on Alpaca. The accidental leak of Llama has become a significant catalyst for innovation in the open source LLM space.
