"A really big deal"--Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model - Ars Technica
On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use that's been fine-tuned on a human-generated data set. It could serve as a compelling starting point for homebrew ChatGPT competitors.
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On Mastodon, AI researcher Simon Willison called Dolly 2.0 "a really big deal." Willison often experiments with open source language models, including Dolly. "One of the most exciting things about Dolly 2.0 is the fine-tuning instruction set, which was hand-built by 5,000 Databricks employees and released under a CC license," Willison wrote in a Mastodon toot.
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