Comment by a5huynh

Note that what they released are the delta weights from the og LLaMa model. To play around with it, you'll need to grab the original LLaMA 13B model and apply the changes.

  > We release Vicuna weights as delta weights to comply with the LLaMA model
  > license. You can add our delta to the original LLaMA weights to obtain
  > the Vicuna weights.

Edit: took me a while to find it, here's a direct link to the delta weights: https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0