Depends on what you want it for. Chatting isn't the only application. For text summarization a model like Vicuna-13b has similar performance to ChatGPT 3.5. Fine-tuned models like the one in this thread might perform way better than the initial ones that leaked from Meta. The important thing is that there's constant progress in this area from the Open Source community and we're about to see amazing things in the future.
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Depends on what you want it for. Chatting isn't the only application. For text summarization a model like Vicuna-13b has similar performance to ChatGPT 3.5. Fine-tuned models like the one in this thread might perform way better than the initial ones that leaked from Meta. The important thing is that there's constant progress in this area from the Open Source community and we're about to see amazing things in the future.