Alpaca is an AI model developed by Stanford University (United States), first published in March 2023. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and question answering.
Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 7,000,000,000 parameters. Training ran on 8 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB for about 3 hours. The compute alone is estimated at $100 in 2023 dollars.
Access: Open weights (non-commercial). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of LLaMA-7B. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.