It is vastly better than anything else so far though. The rest will catch up but openai is not sleeping and they are well funded.

I thought that was the case before trying Vicuna. I agree that LLaMA and Alpaca are inferior to ChatGPT but I'm really not sure Vicuna is. It even (unfortunately) copies some of ChatGPT's quirks, like getting prudish when asking it to write a love scene ("It would not be appropriate for me to write...")

I've tried Vicuna but it still seems inferior to ChatGPT imo. Maybe if it was applied to a version of LLaMA with a number of parameters matching GPT-4 but I'm not sure of that either

It's definitely inferior once you start giving it non-trivial tasks. the same goes for all instruction- and chat-tuned forks of LLaMA. Maybe that'll be different on larger model sizes; we haven't seen vicuna-30b or 65b yet. But if it really is that easy, I'd expect there to be a lot more commercial offerings on par with ChatGPT already.

Well except you can't legally offer fine-tuned LLaMA as a commercial offering like that.

I admittedly have not interacted with Vicuna yet.

is gpt4Xalpaca better?