Vicuna

What is Vicuna?

Vicuna-13B is an open-source chatbot created by fine-tuning the LLaMA model with 70K user-shared conversations from ShareGPT.com. The model, evaluated using GPT-4, showcases over 90% of the quality of prominent chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard, at a training cost of approximately $300. The project improves on previous models like Stanford's Alpaca and introduces scalable infrastructure for its deployment. While preliminary evaluations are promising, further rigorous testing is needed to confirm these findings. The code, weights, and an online demo are publicly available for non-commercial use.