Chronos Llama 2 Models by Elinas
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HuggingFaceAbout
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.
| Model | Use when | Released | Signals | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronos 70B | Use when the workload needs 70B parameters. | 2023-07 | 70B parameters | Current |
| Chronos 13B | Use when the workload needs 13B parameters. | 2023-07 | 13B parameters | Current |
| Chronos 70B V2 | Use when the workload needs 70B parameters. | 2023-07 | 70B parameters | Current |
| Chronos 13B V2 | Use when the workload needs 13B parameters. | 2023-07 | 13B parameters | Current |
Release Timeline
1 release groupSpecifications(4 models)
| Model | Released | Parameters |
|---|---|---|
| Chronos 70B | 2023-07 | 70B |
| Chronos 13B | 2023-07 | 13B |
| Chronos 70B V2 | 2023-07 | 70B |
| Chronos 13B V2 | 2023-07 | 13B |


