LLMs Explained: LLaMA 2, Alpaca and Vicuna

Ching (Chingis)
5 min readDec 9, 2023

Meta’s large language model took the AI research world by storm in February — followed by the commercial Llama 2 in July and Code Llama in August. But with the introduction of LLaMA, the first major free ‘open source’ LLM, open-source AI began to have a moment 😵‍💫.

In this piece, we are diving deeper into the universe of LLaMA and exploring LLama 2 as well as a couple of LLaMA variants that impacted research and open-source communities 🔥. If you missed my very first blog on LLMs and would like to read about Llama 1, please take a look below (:

LLaMA 2

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Key Modifications to LLaMA:

  • More Robust Data

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