opensource model

Vicuna is an open-source chatbot developed by fine-tuning the LLaMA model using 70K user-shared conversations from ShareGPT. It demonstrates performance comparable to ChatGPT and Bard, with a quality rating of over 90% according to preliminary evaluations by GPT-4. Vicuna is designed to be scalable, efficient, and user-friendly, with a lightweight serving system and cost-effective training methods. It supports multi-turn conversations and long context understanding, making it a versatile tool for developers and researchers interested in AI chatbots. The project is publicly available for non-commercial use, including training code and model weights.