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Developers interested in a powerful large language model
About FLAN-T5
FLAN-T5 was released in the paper Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models - it is an enhanced version of T5 that has been finetuned in a mixture of tasks.
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huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/flan-t5
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