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    # 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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