Comment Comment by simonw This is why I think we're seeing a Stable Diffusion moment for LLMs: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/Look at the timeline:24th February 2023: LLaMA is announced, starts being shared with academic partners: https://research.facebook.com/publications/llama-open-and-ef...2nd March: Someone posts a PR with a BitTorrent link to the models: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/7310th March: First commit to llama.cpp by Georgi Gerganov: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/26c084662903dd...11th March: llama.cpp now runs the 7B model on a 4GB RaspberryPi: https://twitter.com/miolini/status/163498236175779020912th March: npx dalai llama: https://cocktailpeanut.github.io/dalai/13th March (today): llama.cpp on a Pixel 6 phone: https://twitter.com/thiteanish/status/1635188333705043969And now, Alpaca. It's not even lunchtime yet!Turned this into a blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/13/alpaca/ parent simonw 3 years ago
Look at the timeline:
24th February 2023: LLaMA is announced, starts being shared with academic partners: https://research.facebook.com/publications/llama-open-and-ef...
2nd March: Someone posts a PR with a BitTorrent link to the models: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73
10th March: First commit to llama.cpp by Georgi Gerganov: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/26c084662903dd...
11th March: llama.cpp now runs the 7B model on a 4GB RaspberryPi: https://twitter.com/miolini/status/1634982361757790209
12th March: npx dalai llama: https://cocktailpeanut.github.io/dalai/
13th March (today): llama.cpp on a Pixel 6 phone: https://twitter.com/thiteanish/status/1635188333705043969
And now, Alpaca. It's not even lunchtime yet!
Turned this into a blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/13/alpaca/