FreeWilly — Stability.AI’s ChatGPT Killer?

John Paul Ada
Techciting
Published in
3 min readJul 23, 2023

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AI’s Latest Unruly Kids

It’s official: The tech world has brand-new troublemakers, and they’re ready to rewrite the rules. FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2, the brainchildren of Stability AI and CarperAI, have rocked up to the AI party, making a splash with their open-source Large Language Models (LLMs). It seems like the ChatGPT may have just met its match!

Stability.AI’s Announcement Post

The Recipe for AI Rebellion

What’s the secret sauce, you ask? Well, the nerds at Stability AI and CarperAI stirred up a new formula, using the Supervised Fine-Tune (SFT) method on a synthetically-generated dataset in good ol’ Alpaca format. Yep, you heard that right! A synthetic dataset and an Alpaca — it sounds more like the setup for a bizarre joke than groundbreaking AI research. But, hey, who are we to judge the recipe when the pudding tastes this good?

Building on the Shoulders of Giants (Or LLaMAs)

FreeWilly1 is one smart cookie, taking a ride on the LLaMA 65B foundation model. FreeWilly2, the ever-competitive sibling, cranks it up a notch by leveraging the beefier LLaMA 2 70B foundation model. They’re different, but both are united in their mission: to show the AI world just what they’ve got.

Masters of Reasoning: AI Just Got Real(ly Smart)

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill AI models. The FreeWilly twins have taken AI capabilities up a few notches, mastering everything from linguistic subtleties to specialized domains like Law and Mathematical problem-solving. It’s like they’ve come straight out of an AI finishing school!

The Proof is in the AI Pudding

Enough of us tooting their horns. These wonder-kids were put through the wringer with EleutherAI’s lm-eval-harness and AGIEval thrown in for good measure. The results? Stability AI researchers nodded approvingly while Hugging Face, the popular AI whiz kids, independently reproduced them on July 21st, 2023, and then flaunted them on their leaderboard.

Get ’em While They’re Hot

These AI marvels are available for all and sundry to download from the Stability AI website and HuggingFace!. Go ahead, let the FreeWilly twins wow you with their prowess!

Are They The ChatGPT Killers?

FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2 have swaggered into the AI world, challenging the reign of the GPT models. Are they Stability.AI’s ChatGPT killers? Well, we can’t say for sure, but they sure seem ready to rumble. They’re pushing the AI envelope and promising to make things a lot more exciting. So, grab your popcorn and watch this space — the FreeWilly revolution is just getting started.

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