BLOOM vs MPT (MosaicML Pretrained Transformer)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
BLOOM
BigScience's 2022 open multilingual model, still downloadable, now a r...
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MPT (MosaicML Pretrained Transformer)
MosaicML's 2023 commercially usable open LLMs, now a legacy family
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.4 / 10 | 5.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free weights on Hugging Face under the BigScience RAIL License v1.0 (commercial use allowed, with use restrictions); self-hosted only | Released free: base and Instruct Apache 2.0, Chat CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; the official Hugging Face repositories now return an authorisation error |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | 200k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | BigScience (workshop coordinated by Hugging Face) | Databricks |
| Verdict | BLOOM is a landmark of open, documented model building: training data, code, checkpoints and optimizer states were all published, and the weights are still on Hugging Face. Its language list includes Indonesian and Vietn... |
MPT was an important 2023 release: an Apache 2.0 base model trained from scratch for about $200,000, with a 65k-context StoryWriter variant when most open models stopped at 2k to 4k tokens. Mind the licence split, though... |
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