# Upstage — Upstage's 70B Language Model Outperforms GPT-3.5, Becomes Global No.1

- Company: Upstage (upstage.ai)
- Announced: 2023-08-01
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.upstage.ai/news/upstage-huggingface-llm-no1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18451-upstage-s-70b-language-model-outperforms-gpt-3-5-becomes-global-no-1
- Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini
- Models affected: Upstage 70B LLM, GPT-3.5, LLaMA 2 70B, Stable Beluga 2

Upstage released a 70-billion-parameter language model that achieved an average score of 72.3 on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard, surpassing GPT-3.5's score of 71.9 and claiming the top spot. The model was fine-tuned with LLaMA 2 and trained with 70 billion parameters, outperforming the previous leader, Stability AI's Stable Beluga 2 (71.4). This marks the first time an open-source model has outperformed a global tech giant's model on this benchmark.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.upstage.ai/news/upstage-huggingface-llm-no1:

> On August 1st, Upstage announced the release of its latest version of the large language model (LLM), which achieved an average score of 72.3 on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. This score surpasses even that of GPT-3.5, solidifying Upstage's position as a frontrunner in the competitive AI landscape.

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