Databricks announces 'Dolly' - an open-source ChatGPT rival

It is aimed at democratising large language models

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Databricks announces 'Dolly' – an open-source ChatGPT rival
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Databricks announces 'Dolly' – an open-source ChatGPT rival

Big-data analytics firm Databricks has an open-source language model called Dolly, which it claims can replicate ChatGPT's abilities without the expensive hardware and large datasets.

The firm, founded by the creators of Apache Spark, says the release of Dolly is aimed at democratising large language models (LLMs). It should help small firms to build their own generative AI mode...

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