The Finetune Spring (Alpaca, Vicuna, …)

community · Mar–Jun 2023

After the LLaMA leak: Alpaca (a $600 GPT-3.5 imitation), Vicuna (“90% of ChatGPT”), WizardLM, Guanaco, and a hundred camelid cousins — the cambrian explosion that proved a character could be copied out of a bigger model for pocket change.

Sources

Official

tk — to collect

Writing & commentary

tk — to collect

Tweets

tk — fleet pass pending; mirror to archive

Official record

tk — release date, specs, benchmarks, checkpoints

History

tk — context of the world at release; events and entanglements

Impressions

tk — day-of and longitudinal vibes to collect

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