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Microsoft releases Orca 2

Microsoft releases the second Orca generation to improve reasoning in small-parameter models.

Event details

Microsoft released Orca 2 on November 21, 2023. The model has 13B parameters, is open source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the Microsoft Research model catalog is the primary source.

Why it matters

An open-source model release with a documented model, parameter scale or access condition.

67/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.

Access notes

Publicly available as an open-source model.