Dolly v2 7B
The 7B size of Dolly 2.0, the first commercially viable open instruction LLM.
About
Dolly v2 7B is the 7-billion-parameter variant of Databricks' Dolly 2.0, released in April 2023 as the first instruction-following language model that was genuinely open for commercial use. Unlike contemporaries trained on ChatGPT outputs, Dolly 2.0 was fine-tuned on databricks-dolly-15k, a human-generated instruction dataset crowdsourced from 5,000 Databricks employees.
The 7B variant builds on EleutherAI's Pythia-6.9B base and ships under the MIT license along with the training code and dataset. It demonstrated that high-quality, commercially usable instruction models could be built entirely from open components, a landmark for the open-source LLM ecosystem.
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