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24 alternatives to Llama 4
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Llama 3.3 70B▲347Llama 405B-level performance, at a fraction of the cost
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3]. I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback. Cheers [1]…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Llama▲3123.1-405B: an open source model to rival GPT-4o / Claude-3.5
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Llama 2▲263The next generation of Meta's open source LLM
2023 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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LLaMA▲118A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model
2023 · research.facebook.com · its alternatives →
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Llama 4▲422A new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
2025 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Code Llama▲73A state-of-the-art large language model for coding
2023 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this! I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 11L3
2024 · goodfire.ai · its alternatives →
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Code Llama 70B▲144New, performant version of Meta's LLM for code generation
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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ChatLLaMA is an experimental chatbot interface for interacting with variants of Facebook's LLaMA. Currently, we support the 7 billion parameter variant that was fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset. This early versions isn't as conversational as we'd like, but over the next week or so, we're planning on adding support for the 30 billion parameter variant, another variant fine-tuned on LAION's OpenAssistant dataset and more as we explore what this model is capable of. If you want deploy your own instance is the model powering the chatbot and build something similar we've open sourced the Truss…
2023 · chatllama.baseten.co · its alternatives →
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High-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B parameter GPT model - shawwn/llama-dl
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning - KhoomeiK/LlamaGym
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Real world knowledge from Perplexity and Llama 3 on Telegram
2024 · telegrambots.ai · its alternatives →
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Complex topics explained for your level and background
2017 · explainmeplease.com · its alternatives →
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I trained the 65b model on my texts so I can talk to myself. It's pretty useless as an assistant, and will only do stuff you convince it to, but I guess it's technically uncensored? I'll leave it up for a bit if you want to chat with it. I posted this to Reddit and had several hundred people talking to it. Salient points from that discussion: LLAMA 1 65b Rank 128 5 epochs Batch size 1, 256 cutoff Trained in the Oobabooga suite using bitsandbytes 4-bit quantization for the lora Loss around 1.5 seems to give the most coherent results Trained on raw text dumps that is then parsed by a crappy…
2023 · airic.serveo.net · its alternatives →
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I've been tinkering with getting Llama-8B to bootstrap its own research skills through self-play. The model generates questions about documents, searches for answers, and then learns from its own successes/failures through RL (hacked up Unsloth's GRPO code). Started with just 23% accuracy on Apollo 13 mission report questions and hit 53% after less than an hour of training. Everything runs locally using open-source models. It's cool to see the model go from completely botching search queries to iteratively researching to get the right answer.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The easiest way to do output iteration with Llama 3.1 405B
2024 · respan.ai · its alternatives →
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2023 · lama.nbnl.uk · its alternatives →
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Meta Llama 3▲159The most capable openly available LLM to date
2024 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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