LLM Reference

Chronos Llama 2 Models by Elinas

ElinasLlama 2 CommunityOpen weights
4 models2023

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Details

ResearcherElinas
Commercial useCommercial use: conditional
Models4
Released2023

About

The Chronos family of language models is built on the Llama 2 base framework and is renowned for excelling in chat, roleplay, and narrative creation, demonstrating strong reasoning and logical abilities 45. These models are engineered to produce lengthy, coherent text outputs, a capability derived from being trained on extensive human-generated text datasets 45. Variants such as 13B and 70B exist, differing in parameter size and quantization techniques like FP16, GPTQ, GGML, and GGUF, which are tailored to specific hardware and performance requirements 237. The Alpaca prompt format is often employed for optimal results 45. Community-created iterations, such as Chronos Hermes, integrate with other models to enhance creative writing capabilities 379.

Decision facts

Best fit
coding
Capability starting point
Chronos 70B
Lowest tracked input
Not tracked
Closest related family
Chronos Llama 1

Current Variants

Use-when guidance is based on each model's tracked capabilities, context window, release date, and replacement status.

4 in view

Use when the workload needs 70B parameters.

2023-0770B parameters

Use when the workload needs 13B parameters.

2023-0713B parameters

Use when the workload needs 70B parameters.

2023-0770B parameters

Use when the workload needs 13B parameters.

2023-0713B parameters

Release Timeline

1 release group
2023-07
4 current
Chronos 13B
13B parameters
Current
Chronos 13B V2
13B parameters
Current
Chronos 70B
70B parameters
Current
Chronos 70B V2
70B parameters
Current

Specifications(4 models)

Chronos Llama 2 model specifications comparison
ModelReleasedParameters
Chronos 70B2023-0770B
Chronos 13B2023-0713B
Chronos 70B V22023-0770B
Chronos 13B V22023-0713B