The History of Open-Source LLMs: Early Days (Part One)

Understanding GPT-Neo, GPT-J, GLM, OPT, BLOOM, and more…

Cameron R. Wolfe, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
20 min readNov 7, 2023

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Research on language modeling has a long history that dates back to models like GTP and GPT-2 or even RNN-based techniques (e.g., ULMFit) that predate modern, transformer-based language models. Despite this long history, however, language models have only become popular…

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