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Google, Stanford University
Electra
FREEELECTRA (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
OTHERThe 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. -
Technology Innovation Institute
Falcon-7B
FREEThe 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. Falcon-7B only needs ~15GB and therefore is accessible even on consumer hardware. The model 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, customer service operations, virtual assistants, language translation, content generation, and sentiment analysis.
This raw pretrained model should be finetuned for specific use cases. Falcon-7B-Instruct is also available at https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct.
If you are looking for a version better-suited model to take generic instructions in a chat format, we recommend Falcon-7B-Instruct rather than the base model. -
Google
FLAN-T5
FREEIf you already know T5, FLAN-T5 is just better at everything. For the same number of parameters, these models have been fine-tuned on more than 1,000 additional tasks covering more languages – the NLP is for English, German, French. It has Apache-2.0 license which is a permissive open source license that allows for commercial use. With appropriate prompting, it can perform zero-shot NLP tasks such as text summarization, common sense reasoning, natural language inference, question answering, sentence and sentiment classification, translation, and pronoun resolution. -
Google
Flan-UL2
FREEDeveloped by Google, Flan-UL2, which is a more powerful version of the T5 model that has been trained using Flan, and it is downloadable from Hugging Face. It shows performance exceeding the ‘prior’ versions of Flan-T5. With the ability to reason for itself and generalize better than the previous models, Flan-UL2 is a great improvement. Flan-UL2 is a machine learning model that can generate textual descriptions of images and has the potential to be used for image search, video captioning, automated content generation, and visual question answering. Flan-UL2 has an Apache-2.0 license, which is a permissive open source license that allows for commercial use.If Flan-UL2’s 20B parameters are too much, consider the previous iteration of Flan-T5, which comes in five different sizes and might be more suitable for your needs. -
Google
LaMDA
OTHERLaMDA stands for Language Model for Dialogue Application. It is a conversational Large Language Model (LLM) built by Google as an underlying technology to power dialogue-based applications that can generate natural-sounding human language. LaMDA is built by fine-tuning a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog and teaching the models to leverage external knowledge sources. The potential use cases for LaMDA are diverse, ranging from customer service and chatbots to personal assistants and beyond. LaMDA is not open source; currently, there are no APIs or downloads. However, Google is working on making LaMDA more accessible to researchers and developers. In the future, it is likely that LaMDA will be released as an open source project, and that APIs and downloads will be made available. -
NVIDIA
LaunchPad
FREENVIDIA LaunchPad provides free access to enterprise NVIDIA hardware and software through an internet browser. NVIDIA customers can experience the power of AI with end-to-end solutions through guided hands-on labs or use NVIDIA-Certified Systems as a sandbox, but you need to fill out an Application Form and wait for approval. Sample labs include training and deploying a support chatbot, deploying an end-to-end AI workload, configuring and deploying a language model on the hardware accelerator, and deploying a fraud detection model.*FREE via Application Form -
Aleph Alpha
Luminous-base
$0.0055Aleph Alpha have the Luminous large language model. Luminous models vary in size, price and parameters. Luminous-base speaks and writes 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and the model can perform information extraction, language simplification and has multi-capable image description capability. Aleph Alpha is targeting “critical enterprises” — organizations like law firms, healthcare providers and banks, which rely heavily on trustable, accurate information. You can try Aleph Alpha models for free. Go to the Jumpstart page on their site and click through the examples on Classification and Labelling, Generation, Information Extraction, Translation & Conversion and Multimodal. Aleph Alpha are based in Europe, allowing customers with sensitive data to process their information in compliance with European regulations for data protection and security on a sovereign, European computing infrastructure. -
Aleph Alpha
Luminous-extended
$0.0082Aleph Alpha luminous-extended is the second largest model which is faster and cheaper than Luminous-supreme. the model can perform information extraction, language simplification and has multi-capable image description capability. You can try Aleph Alpha models with predefined examples for free. Go to at the Jumpstart page on their site and click through the examples on Classification and Labelling, Generation, Information Extraction, Translation and Conversion and Multimodal. Aleph Alpha are based in Europe, which allows customers with sensitive data to process their information in compliance with European regulations for data protection and security on a sovereign, European computing infrastructure. -
Aleph Alpha
Luminous-supreme
$0.0319Supreme is the largest model but the most expensive Aleph Alpha Luminous model. Supreme can do all the tasks of the other smaller models (it speaks and writes 5 languages, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and can undertake Information extraction, language simplification, semantically compare texts, summarize documents, perform Q&A tasks and more) and is well suited for creative writing. You can try out the Aleph Alpha models for free. Go to the Jumpstart page on their site and click through the examples on Classification & Labelling, Generation, Information Extraction, Translation & Conversion and Multimodal. -
Aleph Alpha
Luminous-supreme-control
$0.0398Supreme-control is its own model, although it is based on Luminous-supreme and is optimized on a certain set of tasks. The models differ in complexity and ability but this model excels when it can be optimized for question and answering and Natural Language Inference.You can try out the combination of the Aleph Alpha models with predefined examples for free. Go to at the Jumpstart page on their site and click through the examples on Classification & Labelling, Generation, Information Extraction, Translation & Conversion and Multimodal. -
Microsoft, NVIDIA
MT-NLG
OTHERMT-NLG (Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation) uses the architecture of the transformer-based Megatron to generate coherent and contextually relevant text for a range of tasks, including completion prediction, reading comprehension, commonsense reasoning, natural language inferences, and word sense disambiguation. MT-NLG is the successor to Microsoft Turing NLG 17B and NVIDIA Megatron-LM 8.3B. The MT-NLG model is three times larger than GPT-3 (530B vs 175B). Following the original Megatron work, NVIDIA and Microsoft trained the model on over 4,000 GPUs. NVIDIA has announced an Early Access program for its managed API service to the MT-NLG model for organizations and researchers.
