Llama
Alpaca
Stanford's instruction-tuned Llama model — trained on 52k GPT-generated instructions for $600.
Beluga
Stability AI's 2023 Llama fine-tunes — non-commercial, abandoned
CodeLlama
Meta's 2023 open-weight code models, now archived but still usable.
Guanaco
The QLoRA demo chatbot that made single-GPU fine-tuning standard
Koala
Berkeley's 2023 dialogue-tuned LLaMA — a research-era milestone
Meta's free AI assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
Nous Hermes
Nous Research's open Hermes models — steerable, minimally filtered
Orca
Microsoft Research's reasoning-tuned small models — research-only
2023 leaderboard-topper trained on just 25k curated STEM examples
Smaug by Abacus
Abacus.AI's 2024 open-weight fine-tunes, now legacy
Vicuna
Fine-tuned open-source chatbot trained on ShareGPT conversations — 90% quality of ChatGPT at minimal cost.
WizardLM
Evol-Instruct LLM family — ex-Microsoft team, now dormant open weights
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