whatmodel.sh / Guanaco 33B

Guanaco 33B is an open-weights language model from University of Washington, released May 2023. Its published size is 33B parameters. Licence: llama-1-noncommercial-research.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison-only. Arena entry 'guanaco-33b' (text). LMArena's leaderboard table (arena-leaderboard space @6f2eeeb) labels 'guanaco-33b' as 'Guanaco-33B' (UW, Non-commercial), linking https://huggingface.co/timdettmers/guanaco-33b-merged. Maker repo timdettmers/guanaco-33b-merged @b2e78a9: licence tag none tagged. Parameters: nominal size from the model name. Released 2023-05: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2023-05-22). QLoRA fine-tune of LLaMA 33B (merged weights repo linked by LMArena's table); LLaMA-based, non-commercial per the Arena licence field.

Model information sources

· Weights licence ↗

32.7±1.5#620 of 719 LLMsfrom 5 benchmark results across 4 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Guanaco 33B, out of 828 with a score.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
715StarCoderBase 15.5B BigCode33±1local~12GB2023-05
716Vicuna 7B v1.5 LMSYS33±1local~5.8GB2023-08
717Guanaco 33B University of Washington33±2local~70GB2023-05
718Stable Code 3B Stability AI33±1local~3.3GB2024-01
719OLMo 2 1B Instruct (0425) Allen Institute for AI33±2local~2.4GB2025-04

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$ what it's good at

chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #370 of 393 · 99% of its score · 5 tests

Beats Phi-2 (2.7B), Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct, Nous-Hermes-13b here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 3 270M IT, SmolLM2 360M Instruct, Granite 4.0 350M here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AlpacaEval 2 length-controlled5.7% ✎▁▂▃▃▆▆█▆▄▄▁▁ beats 11/122medium · avg 39%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 29%typical
Polyrating rating (bias-aware re-fit of Chatbot Arena votes, mid-2024)1035.0 ✎▂▁▂▁▃▇█▆▇▄▂▂ beats 20/95avg 1201▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 21%blunt
LMArena (text)1127.4 ✎▁▁▁▃▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 25/379avg 1268▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%blunt
MT-Bench (GPT-4 single-answer grading, LMSYS runs)6.5300 MT-Bench score (1-10) ✎▆▂▂▆▆▄██▂▄▄▆ beats 17/28avg 8.819 MT-Bench score (1-10)▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 18%sharp · noisy
AlpacaEval 1.0 win rate (vs text-davinci-003, GPT-4 judge)66.0% ✎▂▂·▆·▇▃▆█▆▄▂ beats 12/45very easy · avg 96%▇▇▇▇ 11%sharp · at its level · noisy

$ where to run it

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~65.06 GB · from huggingface.co/timdettmers
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='timdettmers/guanaco-33b-merged', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/timdettmers ↗

$ how the score was worked out · AlpacaEval 1.0 and 2.0 leader… 40%, Polyrating: A Cost-Effective… 21%, LMArena leaderboard dataset 20% and 1 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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