🚀 AI Models & Tools Compendium 2024: Open Source & Beyond

📅 Last Updated: December 29, 2024

💡 A curated collection of AI models, prioritizing open-source solutions with commercial options included

📚 Table of Contents

• Open Source Models
  • Apache 2.0 Licensed
    • Falcon LLM
    • Mistral 7B
    • GPT-J & GPT-NeoX
    • RedPajama
    • Vicuna
    • Baichuan
    • Phoenix
    • Cerebras-GPT
    • OpenAssistant
    • Flan-T5
  • MIT Licensed
    • Galactica
  • OpenRAIL Licensed
    • BLOOM
  • Permissive Licensed
    • Dolly
• Commercial & Hybrid Models
  • Custom / Mixed License
    • LLaMA
    • Alpaca
    • ChatGLM
    • Qwen
    • Yi-Lightning
    • DeepSeek
• Specialized Models
  • Image Generation
    • Stable Diffusion
    • DALL-E Mini
    • DeepFloyd IF
    • Disco Diffusion
    • Open Journey
  • Speech Models
    • Text-to-Speech
      • Coqui TTS
      • Mozilla TTS
      • Piper
    • Speech-to-Text
      • Whisper
      • DeepSpeech
      • Kaldi
• Infrastructure & Platforms
  • Cloud & Deployment
    • Hugging Face
    • RunPod
    • Google Colab
    • InvokeAI
    • Replicate

🔓 Open Source Models

Apache 2.0 Licensed

1. 🦅 Falcon LLM (TII) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae • Parameters: 40B/180B • Notes: High-performance NLP tasks

2. ⚡ Mistral 7B (Mistral AI) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://mistral.ai/ • Parameters: 7B • Notes: Dense LLM, efficient performance

3. 🤖 GPT-J (EleutherAI) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax • Parameters: 6B • Notes: Broad language tasks

4. 🧠 GPT-NeoX (EleutherAI) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox • Parameters: - • Notes: GPT-3 alternative

5. 🔄 RedPajama (Together) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data • Parameters: - • Notes: Democratizing access

6. 💬 Vicuna (LMSYS) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat • Parameters: 7B/13B • Notes: LLaMA-based conversational

7. 🌏 Baichuan (Baichuan AI) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/baichuan-inc/Baichuan-13B • Parameters: 13B • Notes: Chinese-focused NLP

8. 🎭 Phoenix (Phoenix AI) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/LLMZoo • Parameters: - • Notes: Bilingual reasoning

9. 🧮 Cerebras-GPT (Cerebras) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://huggingface.co/cerebras • Parameters: - • Notes: Hardware-optimized

10. 🤝 OpenAssistant (LAION) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant • Parameters: - • Notes: Community-driven

11. 📚 Flan-T5 (Google) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/google-research/t5x • Parameters: - • Notes: Instruction-tuned

MIT Licensed

1. 🧪 Galactica (Meta) • License: MIT • Repository: https://github.com/paperswithcode/galai • Notes: Science-focused

OpenRAIL Licensed

1. 🌺 BLOOM (BigScience) • License: OpenRAIL • Repository: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom • Parameters: 176B • Notes: Supports 46 natural & 13 programming languages (59 total?)

Permissive Licensed

1. 🐑 Dolly (Databricks) • License: Permissive • Repository: https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly • Notes: Fine-tuned from GPT-J/NeoX, open-source licensing

🔐 Commercial & Hybrid Models

Custom / Mixed License

1. 🔥 LLaMA (Meta) • License: Custom (Research/Commercial) • Repository: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama • Parameters: 7B–70B • Notes: Multilingual, flexible fine-tuning

2. 🦙 Alpaca (Stanford) • License: Custom (Research) • Repository: https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca • Parameters: - • Notes: Fine-tuned from LLaMA for instruction tasks

3. 💬 ChatGLM (THUDM) • License: Commercial allowed • Repository: https://github.com/THUDM/ChatGLM-6B • Parameters: 6B • Notes: CN/EN bilingual

4. 🌟 Qwen (Alibaba) • License: Partial commercial • Repository: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen • Parameters: 7B-110B • Notes: MoE variants

5. ⚡ Yi-Lightning (Yi AI) • License: Proprietary • Repository: https://yi.ai/ • Notes: Cost-efficient performance

6. 🔍 DeepSeek (DeepSeek AI) • License: Mixed commercial • Repository: https://deepseek.ai/ • Notes: Large context window

🎯 Specialized Models

🎨 Image Generation

1. Stable Diffusion (Stability AI) • License: CreativeML • Repository: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion • Notes: Text-to-image diffusion

2. DALL-E Mini (Boris Dayma) • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini • Notes: Accessible image synthesis

3. DeepFloyd IF (DeepFloyd) • License: Mixed • Repository: https://github.com/deepfloyd/IF • Notes: High-fidelity generation

4. Disco Diffusion (Colab) • License: MIT • Repository: https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion • Notes: Artistic creation

5. Open Journey (PromptHero) • License: CreativeML • Repository: https://github.com/prompthero/openjourney • Notes: Style-focused

🗣️ Speech Models

1. Coqui TTS (Coqui) • Type: TTS • License: MPL 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS • Notes: Multilingual

2. Mozilla TTS (Mozilla) • Type: TTS • License: MPL 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS • Notes: Natural voices

3. Piper (Rhasspy) • Type: TTS • License: MIT • Repository: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper • Notes: Edge deployment

4. Whisper (OpenAI) • Type: STT • License: MIT • Repository: https://github.com/openai/whisper • Notes: Recognition

5. DeepSpeech (Mozilla) • Type: STT • License: MPL 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech • Notes: RNN-based

6. Kaldi (Kaldi) • Type: STT • License: Apache 2.0 • Repository: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi • Notes: Research toolkit

⚙️ Infrastructure & Platforms

Cloud & Deployment

• 🤗 Hugging Face - Model repository & deployment (https://huggingface.co/)
• ☁️ RunPod - GPU infrastructure (https://runpod.io/)
• 📓 Google Colab - Notebook environment (https://colab.research.google.com/)
• 🎨 InvokeAI - Stable Diffusion platform (https://invoke.ai/)
• 🔄 Replicate - API deployment (https://replicate.com/)

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