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  • Stanford University

    Alpaca

    FREE
    Stanford University released an instruction-following language model called Alpaca, which was fine-tuned from Meta’s LLaMA 7B model. The Alpaca model was trained on 52K instruction-following demonstrations generated in the style of self-instruct using text-davinci-003. Alpaca aims to help the academic community engage with the models by providing an open source model that rivals OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 (text-davinci-003) models. To this end, Alpaca has been kept small and cheap (fine-tuning Alpaca took 3 hours on 8x A100s which is less than $100 of cost) to reproduce. All training data and techniques have been released. The Alpaca license explicitly prohibits commercial use, and the model can only be used for research/personal projects, and users need to follow LLaMA’s license agreement.
  • Google

    BARD

    FREE
    Google’s Bard is now powered by PaLM 2, the new powerful LLM launched in May 2023. PaLM 2 is trained on a massive dataset of text and code. Bard can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. Bard is programmed to use the web to find the most recent answers to questions. This means that when you ask Bard a question, it will not only use its knowledge of the world to answer your question, but it will also use the internet to find the most recent information on the topic. This allows Bard to provide you with the most accurate and up-to-date information possible (very cool).
    The exact billing structure for Bard is still under development (it is free to try at the moment) but you will likely be able to purchase tokens in bulk at a discounted price. According to Google, you may also be able to use tokens you have earned through other means, such as completing surveys or participating in beta testing programs.

  • Google

    BERT

    FREE
    BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) was introduced in 2018 by researchers at Google AI. BERT uses AI in the form of natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU), and sentiment analysis to process every word in a search query in relation to all the other words in a sentence, giving it a robust understanding of context and semantics. This pre-training process is incredibly powerful and the learned weights can be fine-tuned with just one additional output layer to create models for a variety of NLP tasks such as question answering and sentiment analysis. You can download the smaller BERT models for FREE from the official BERT GitHub page.
  • BigScience

    BLOOM

    FREE
    BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model (BLOOM) is a transformer-based LLM. Over 1,000 AI researchers created it to provide a free large language model for everyone who wants to try and it is a multilingual LLM. BLOOM is an autoregressive Large Language Model (LLM), trained to continue text from a prompt on vast amounts of text data using industrial-scale computational resources. It can output coherent text in 46 languages and 13 programming languages. It is free, and everybody who wants to can try it out. To interact with the API, you’ll need to request a token. This is done with a post request to the server. Tokens are only valid for two weeks. After which, a new one must be generated. Trained on around 176B parameters, it is considered an alternative to OpenAI models. There is a downloadable model, and a hosted API is available.

  • Deepmind

    Chinchilla AI

    OTHER

    Google’s DeepMind Chinchilla AI is still in the testing phase. Once released, Chinchilla AI will be useful for developing various artificial intelligence tools, such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and predictive models. It functions in a manner analogous to that of other large language models such as GPT-3 (175B parameters), Jurassic-1 (178B parameters), Gopher (280B parameters), and Megatron-Turing NLG (300B parameters) but because Chinchilla is smaller (70B parameters), inference and fine-tuning costs less, easing the use of these models for smaller companies or universities that may not have the budget or hardware to run larger models.

  • Google

    Cloud Platform

    OTHER
    Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud computing service that includes innovative AI and machine learning products, solutions, and services. Google AI Studio is a low-code development environment that makes it easy to build and deploy applications and has a variety of features, such as pre-trained models that can be used to get started quickly, a unified experience for managing the entire ML lifecycle, from data preparation to model deployment, and a variety of tools for monitoring the performance of ML models in production. Vertex AI can be used to train and deploy models, and GCP also offers a variety of data storage services, including Cloud Storage, which can be used to store large datasets.
  • Google

    code chat (codechat-bison)

    $0.002

    Based on Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, the company specifically trained Codey APIs to handle coding-related prompts, but it also trained the model to handle queries related to Google Cloud.

    The code chat API can power a chatbot that assists with code-related questions. For example, you can use it for help debugging code. The code chat API supports the code-chat-bison model.

    The Codey APIs support a wide range of programming languages, including C++, C#, Go, GoogleSQL, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, and TypeScript. You can run with the API and in Generative AI Studio.

    Some common use cases for code chat include debugging, where it assists with issues related to code that doesn’t compile or contains a bug; documentation, where it aids in understanding unfamiliar code to ensure accurate representation; and learning, as it provides help in comprehending code that you might not be very familiar with.

    Note: We have converted characters to tokens for the prices (based on the approximation of 4 characters per 1 token).

  • Google

    code completion (code-gecko)

    $0.002

    Based on Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, the company specifically trained Codey APIs to handle coding-related prompts, but it also trained the model to handle queries related to Google Cloud. The code completion API provides code autocompletion suggestions as you write code. The API uses the context of the code you’re writing to make its suggestions.

    The code completion API supports the code-gecko model. Use the code-gecko model to help improve the speed and accuracy of writing code. The Codey APIs support a wide range of programming languages including C++, C#, Go, GoogleSQL, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, and TypeScript. You can run with the API and in Generative AI Studio. Some common use cases for code completion include writing code faster, where the code-gecko model is employed to expedite the coding process by leveraging suggested code; and minimizing bugs in code, by utilizing code suggestions that are known to be syntactically correct to circumvent errors, thus reducing the risk of inadvertently introducing bugs that can arise during code creation.

    Note: We have converted characters to tokens for the prices (based on the approximation of 4 characters per 1 token).

  • Google

    code generation (code-bison)

    $0.002

    Based on Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, the company specifically trained Codey APIs to handle coding-related prompts, but it also trained the model to handle queries related to Google Cloud.

    code generation (code-bison) generates code based on a natural language description of the desired code. For example, it can generate a unit test for a function. The code generation API supports the code-bison model. The Codey APIs support a wide range of programming languages, including C++, C#, Go, GoogleSQL, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, and TypeScript. You can run with the API and in Generative AI Studio.

    Some common use cases for code generation include creating unit tests, where you can design a prompt to request a unit test for a specific function; writing a function, which involves passing a problem to the model and receiving a function that solves the problem; and creating a class, where you can use a prompt to describe the purpose of a class and have the code defining that class returned to you.

    Note: We have converted characters to tokens for the prices (based on the approximation of 4 characters per 1 token).

  • Databricks

    Dolly 2.0

    FREE
    Dolly 2.0 by Databricks, is the first open source, instruction-following Large Language Model, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset and is licensed for research and commercial use, which means any organization can create, own, and customize powerful LLMs that can talk to people without paying for API access or sharing data with third parties.

    Dolly 2.0 is a 12B parameter language model based on the EleutherAI pythia model family and fine-tuned exclusively on a new, high-quality human generated instruction following dataset (crowdsourced among Databricks employees – so cool). Dolly-v2-12b is not a state-of-the-art model, but it does exhibit surprisingly high-quality instruction following behavior not characteristic of the foundation model on which it is based. Dolly v2 is also available in smaller model sizes: dolly-v2-7b, a 6.9 billion parameter based on pythia-6.9b and dolly-v2-3b, a 2.8 billion parameter based on pythia-2.8b.

    Dolly 2.0 can be used for brainstorming, classification, open Q&A, closed Q&A, content generation, information extraction, and summarization. You can access the Dolly 2.0 can training code, the dataset, and the model weights on Hugging Face.
  • Google, Stanford University

    Electra

    FREE
    ELECTRA (Efficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately) is a transformer-based model like BERT, but it uses a different pre-training approach, which is more efficient and requires less computational resources. It was created by a team of researchers from Google Research, Brain Team, and Stanford University. ELECTRA models are trained to distinguish “real” input tokens vs “fake” input tokens generated by another neural network (for the more technical audience, ELECTRA uses a new pre-training task, called replaced token detection (RTD), that trains a bidirectional model while learning from all input positions). Inspired by generative adversarial networks (GANs), ELECTRA trains the model to distinguish between “real” and “fake” input data. At small scale, ELECTRA achieves strong results even when trained on a single GPU. At large scale, ELECTRA achieves state-of-the-art results on the SQuAD 2.0 dataset. Go to GitHub where you can access the three models (ELECTRA-Small, ELECTRA-Base and ELECTRA-Large).

  • Technology Innovation Institute

    Falcon-40B

    OTHER
    The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), an Abu Dhabi government funded research institution, has introduced Falcon, a state-of-the-art autoregressive decoder-only language model series released under the Apache 2.0 license, which means it can be used for commerical and research uses.
    The family includes Falcon-40B and Falcon-7B, trained on 1 trillion tokens, mainly (>80%) from the RefinedWeb datase. A special variant, Falcon-40B-Instruct, has been made available which may be more suitable for assistant-style tasks. Falcon-40B can support English, German, Spanish, French (and limited capabilities in Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Czech, Swedish). It can be used to generate creative text and solve complex problems, chatbots, virtual assistants, language translation, content generation, and sentiment analysis (and more).

    To use these models, PyTorch 2.0 is required. TII is now calling for proposals from users worldwide to submit their most creative ideas for Falcon 40B’s deployment – https://falconllm.tii.ae/call-for-proposal.php or you can pay to access it via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.
    A demo of Falcon-Chat is available on Hugging Face at https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/falcon-chat.

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