Not sure I understand. Is it better? Depends on what you're trying to do. I can say that alpaca-7B and alpaca-13B operate as better and more consistent chatbots than llama-7B and llama-13B. That's what standard alpaca has been fine-tuned to do.

Is it bigger? No, alpaca-7B and 13B are the same size as llama-7B and 13B.

You can run llama-30B on a CPU using llama.cpp, it's just slow. The alpaca models I've seen are the same size as the llama model they are trained on, so I would expect running the alpaca-30B models will be possible on any system capable of running llama-30B.

> Well that depends on whether OpenAI can prove Google is deriving commerical value from OpenAI's patented research.

That's not an issue, people make money due to patented technologies all the time. That's different from infringing on a patent. Either way, it would be an incredibly messy battle. Google invented the T in GPT, I can't imagine Google doesn't have a deep AI patent portfolio.

It takes about 7 seconds to generate a full response using 13B to a prompt with the default (128) number of predicted tokens.

I'm running it using https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp. The 4-bit version of 13b runs ok without GPU acceleration.

They can't extend the life of the patent. They can claim that the process for making the drug is patented, and they can claim multiple steps in the process to make the drug are patented. Generic companies would have to see if they can make the drug without violating these patents, or they might have to challenge them.

Then why not generalize this? Why is it ok for any number of companies to collect data on US citizens, well beyond what is necessary to operate, with little to no oversight or accountability? The solution isn’t adhoc. Make all tech companies accountable. Require any company that meets a size threshold to have a regular external audit of their practices, with big enough repercussions for violations that companies can’t just pay a small fine and change nothing.

TikTok is low hanging fruit, but what’s the point if data brokers can legally resell mountains of information about you? The truth is TikTok isn’t breaking the law in most instances, we just don’t have any law that prevents what they are doing. National security arguments can’t be where this is fought, because we’ve seen over and over that countries will claim everything they don’t like is a national security issue.

You can play around with it here: https://whisper.ggerganov.com/

It's significantly slower (approx 50 times slower) than the natively compiled version (https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) but you can at least get a sense of accuracy using the online version.

You serious?