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dolly

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Databricks’ Dolly, a large language model trained on the Databricks Machine Learning Platform

Project last updated:06/30/23

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Apache-2.0

Why we included this project

Dolly stands out less for raw performance than for what it demonstrates: Databricks fine-tuned EleutherAI's Pythia-12b base on roughly 15,000 instruction and response pairs written by its own employees, then released the commercially licensed result along with the training pipeline. For teams that want to learn how to adapt a pretrained model on their own infrastructure rather than just download one, the repository is a genuinely useful starting point, with the notebook and pipeline that produced the model. It is also refreshingly honest about its limits: the 12B checkpoint is not state of the art, and the README calls out weak spots like coding, math, and hallucination. Treat it as a foundation model to study or build on, not a drop-in assistant for production.

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