AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LLaMA
A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. LLaMA launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Llama 2▲263The next generation of Meta's open source LLM
2023 · developer.meta.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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High-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B parameter GPT model - shawwn/llama-dl
2023 · github.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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Llama 4▲422A new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
2025 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
- 7WD
2023 · lama.nbnl.uk · 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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Fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning - KhoomeiK/LlamaGym
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been playing around with https://github.com/zphang/minimal-llama/ and https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/blob/main/finetune.py, and wanted to create a simple UI where you can just paste text, tweak the parameters, and finetune the model quickly using a modern GPU. To prepare the data, simply separate your text with two blank lines. There's an inference tab, so you can test how the tuned model behaves. This is my first foray into the world of LLM finetuning, Python, Torch, Transformers, LoRA, PEFT, and Gradio. Enjoy!
2023 · github.com · 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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2024 · goodfire.ai · its alternatives →
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Dream 7B▲191Powerful Open Diffusion LLM, Beyond Autoregressive
2025 · hkunlp.github.io · its alternatives →
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Ollama▲235The easiest way to run large language models locally
2023 · github.com · 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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Hi HN! I'm just sharing a project I've been working on during the LLM Efficiency Challenge - you can now finetune Llama with QLoRA 5x faster than Huggingface's original implementation on your own local GPU. Some highlights: 1. Manual autograd engine - hand derived backprop steps. 2. QLoRA / LoRA 80% faster, 50% less memory. 3. All kernels written in OpenAI's Triton language. 4. 0% loss in accuracy - no approximation methods - all exact. 5. No change of hardware necessary. Supports NVIDIA GPUs since 2018+. CUDA 7.5+. 6. Flash Attention support via Xformers. 7. Supports 4bit and 16bit…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN A few folks and I have been working on this project for a couple weeks now. After previously working on the Docker project for a number of years (both on the container runtime and image registry side), the recent rise in open source language models made us think something similar needed to exist for large language models too. While not exactly the same as running linux containers, running LLMs shares quite a few of the same challenges. There are "base layers" (e.g. models like Llama 2), specific configuration to run correctly (parameters, temperature, context window sizes etc). There's…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We believe that AI should be fully open source and part of the collective knowledge. The original LLaMA code is GPL licensed which means any project using it must also be released under GPL. This "taints" any other code and prevents meaningful academic and commercial use. Lit-LLaMA solves that for good.
2023 · github.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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