Guanaco, A Potential Open Source Project Rival To ChatGPT

Guanaco, an open source chatbot created by researchers at the University of Washington, aims to rival ChatGPT while requiring less money and time for training.

Guanaco, an open source chatbot developed by University of Washington researchers, attempts to compete with ChatGPT’s performance while using a great deal less time and resources during training. Guanaco, named after a llama relative from South America, is based on the LLaMA language model and uses a brand-new fine-tuning technique called QLoRA.

Guanaco’s developers assert that it performs on par with…