Vicuna (Hugging Face)
Early open chat models fine-tuned from Llama-class bases by LMSYS—widely mirrored on the Hub (e.g. Vicuna-7B v1.5).
Why it is included
Landmark open-chat artifact with sustained Hub download traffic alongside modern families.
Best for
Historical comparison, instruction-tuning studies, and legacy chat pipelines.
Strengths
- Chat format precedent
- Many community forks
- HF-native
Limitations
- Superseded by newer instruct models; license tied to base
Good alternatives
Llama 3 Instruct · Mistral · Qwen
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OpenAI’s open-weight GPT-OSS checkpoints (e.g. 20B, 120B) hosted on Hugging Face for local inference and fine-tuning.
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GPT-2 (Hugging Face)
Historic decoder-only LM family (124M–1.5B) under `openai-community` on the Hub—still a default tutorial and pipeline test target.