teknium/OpenHermes-2.5 (via) The Nous-Hermes and Open Hermes series of LLMs, fine-tuned on top of base models like Llama 2 and Mistral, have an excellent reputation and frequently rank highly on various leaderboards.
The developer behind them, Teknium, just released the full set of fine-tuning data that they curated to build these models. It’s a 2GB JSON file with over a million examples of high quality prompts, responses and some multi-prompt conversations, gathered from a number of different sources and described in the data card.
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