Open Source
dolly
Databricks’ Dolly, a large language model trained on the Databricks Machine Learning Platform
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About dolly
Dolly is a large language model trained on the Databricks Machine Learning Platform. It is designed for instruction following and fine-tuning on custom datasets. The model is open source and available under a community license.
Best for
Developers and researchers who want to fine-tune a mid-sized open-source LLM on Databricks infrastructure.
Use cases
- Fine-tuning a language model on domain-specific instructions
- Building a conversational agent for customer support
- Generating code or documentation from natural language prompts
Notes
10,790 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2023-06-30. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Open source with permissive community license
- Trained on a robust enterprise ML platform
- Good foundation for custom instruction-following tasks
Cons
- Requires substantial GPU memory for inference and training
- Not as capable as larger proprietary models for complex reasoning
- Limited pre-training data scope compared to frontier models
Key facts
What we have checked
- Days since the last commit
- 1,224
- GitHub forks
- 1,128
- GitHub stars
- 10,809
- Days to a first reply on issues
- 1.5
- Open issues
- 5
- Releases in the last 90 days
- 0
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Stars and usage
How dolly is growing
10,790 to 10,809
Health and security
Is dolly looked after, and what do its setup files show
Health score
44 out of 100
| Part | Points | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Recent activity | 0 of 30 | Last push 1,224 days ago |
| Releases | 0 of 15 | 0 releases in 90 days |
| Issue replies | 20 of 20 | First reply in 1.5 days (median) |
| Maintainer | 15 of 15 | Owned by an organisation |
| Official source | Not counted | MCP servers only |
Sources
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