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# Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research
This repo contains the weights diff against the base LLaMA for the Koala model. Check out the following links to get started:
* [Blog post](https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2023/04/03/koala/)
* [Online demo](https://koala.lmsys.org/)
* [EasyLM: training and serving framework on GitHub](https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM)
* [Documentation for running Koala locally](https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM/blob/main/docs/koala.md)

## License
The model weights are intended for academic research only, subject to the
[model License of LLaMA](https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md),
[Terms of Use of the data generated by OpenAI](https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use),
and [Privacy Practices of ShareGPT](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sharegpt-share-your-chatg/daiacboceoaocpibfodeljbdfacokfjb).
Any other usage of the model weights, including but not limited to commercial usage, is strictly prohibited.
Please contact us If you find any potential violations. Our training and inference code is released under the Apache License 2.0.