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GPT4All: Running an Open-source ChatGPT Clone on Your Laptop

The open-source chatbot that was trained on ChatGPT output

Maximilian Strauss
Better Programming
6 min readMar 30, 2023

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Introduction

The events are unfolding rapidly, and new Large Language Models (LLM) are being developed at an increasing pace. Just in the last months, we had the disruptive ChatGPT and now GPT-4. To clarify the definitions, GPT stands for (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and is the underlying language model, and ChatGPT is a specific implementation designed for conversation. Bill Gates reflected on the work of OpenAI by saying, “The Age of AI has begun”. If you are feeling that it is hard to keep up with the rapid change, you are not alone. Just now, more than 1,000 researchers signed a petition to pause training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for the next six months.

While the technical achievements are remarkable, they remain behind closed doors. Despite its name, OpenAI has been long criticized by some for not releasing their models and is even called ClosedAI by some. Researchers and enthusiasts alike are striving for open-source alternatives.

If you missed the recent developments, you should check out Meta’s LLaMA (GitHub), which is supposed to outperform GPT-3. It is licensed under a GNU license, and while it is not strictly open-source, you can…

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Maximilian Strauss
Maximilian Strauss

Written by Maximilian Strauss

Data Science | Artificial Intelligence | Engineer

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