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Dolly 2.0-12b

Dolly 2.0-12b (Databricks) was released on Apr 11, 2023. In the Epoch AI capability ranking (ECI), it ranks #261 out of 267 models, with 89.83.

#261 of 267 in the ECI ranking
89.83 ECI, the Epoch AI capability index
no match Arena ELO, human preference
not measured LiveBench, overall average from 0 to 100
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What the tests say

Where Dolly 2.0-12b stands out and where it falls behind, by the numbers

Dolly 2.0-12b has published results on 7 tests compiled by Epoch AI. The yardstick here is its generation: its position among the models released between Jul 15, 2022 and Jul 10, 2023 that took the same test. Against the whole archive, which includes 2023 models, a recent release lands near the top of almost everything, and that says nothing.

Where it stands out

Tests where it sits in the top third of its own generation.

It is not in the top third of its generation on any test with 6 or more models compared.

Where it falls behind

Tests where it sits in the bottom half of its own generation.

BoolQ56.3%
#20 of 20 in its generation · record: 90.9% (PaLM 2-L)
MMLU26.2%
#16 of 17 in its generation, tied with 1 · record: 88.1% (GPT-4o (May 2024))
WinoGrande61.8%
#17 of 19 in its generation · record: 89.2% (Llama 3.1-405B)
PIQA75.4%
#15 of 18 in its generation · record: 88.7% (GPT-4o mini)
ARC (AI2)39.6%
#16 of 20 in its generation · record: 95.3% (DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025))
See all 7 tests, one by one
TestScoreIn its generationOverallTest record
MMLU 26.2% #16 / 17 (tied with 1) #90 / 92 88.1% GPT-4o (May 2024)
ARC (AI2) 39.6% #16 / 20 #53 / 65 95.3% DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)
WinoGrande 61.8% #17 / 19 #52 / 61 89.2% Llama 3.1-405B
HellaSwag 70.8% #14 / 20 #40 / 51 95.3% GPT-4 (Mar 2023)
PIQA 75.4% #15 / 18 #39 / 43 88.7% GPT-4o mini
BoolQ 56.3% #20 / 20 #42 / 42 90.9% PaLM 2-L
OpenBookQA 39.2% #13 / 17 #27 / 32 88.0% phi-3-mini 3.8B

For each test, the model's best effort level counts, as in the ranking. Source of the scores: Epoch AI, under CC BY 4.0.

Comparison

What to compare Dolly 2.0-12b with

The models from other labs closest in capability and released in the same period, at most two per lab. Click any of them to see its page.

ModelLabECIELOLiveBenchRelease
XGen-7B Salesforce 93.54 n/a n/a Jun 27, 2023
open_llama_7b 91.80 n/a n/a Jun 7, 2023
Phi-1.5 Microsoft 91.68 n/a n/a Sep 11, 2023
Baichuan1-7B Baichuan 90.61 n/a n/a Jun 1, 2023
RedPajama-INCITE-7B-Base 90.58 n/a n/a May 4, 2023
Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks 89.83 n/a n/a Apr 11, 2023
DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek 89.77 n/a n/a Nov 2, 2023
Head to head

Dolly 2.0-12b or RedPajama-INCITE-7B-Base?

RedPajama-INCITE-7B-Base is the model from another lab closest to Dolly 2.0-12b in capability. Across the 7 tests both took, this is the score:

Dolly 2.0-12b ahead on 2 RedPajama-INCITE-7B-Base ahead on 5
Largest differences first
TestDolly 2.0-12bRedPajama-INCITE-7B-Base
BoolQ 56.3% 69.3%
WinoGrande 61.8% 63.8%
OpenBookQA 39.2% 40.0%
PIQA 75.4% 76.9%
ARC (AI2) 39.6% 39.1%
HellaSwag 70.8% 70.3%
MMLU 26.2% 26.3%

Unweighted score: each test counts one point, whether math or coding. The dot marks who did better on each row.

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Frequently asked questions

What people ask about Dolly 2.0-12b

Where does Dolly 2.0-12b rank among AI models?

In the ROO3 AI Benchmark, ordered by the Epoch AI ECI, Dolly 2.0-12b ranks #261 out of 267 models, with an ECI of 89.83. The ECI is a composite index that combines several hard benchmarks into a single scale. The position changes when a new model comes out, and the page is refreshed six times a day.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than RedPajama-INCITE-7B-Base?

Across the 7 tests both models took and Epoch AI compiled, Dolly 2.0-12b comes out ahead on 2, behind on 5 and tied on 0. It is a test-by-test count with no weighting: a win in math counts the same as a win in coding. To choose between the two, look at the tests that resemble your own use.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

From the same three sources as the ranking, all openly licensed: Epoch AI (ECI and individual tests, CC BY 4.0), Arena (human-preference ELO, CC BY 4.0) and LiveBench (overall average, CC BY-SA 4.0). ROO3 does not measure any model. When the page shows a figure published by the maker itself, it appears in the written analysis, labeled as the maker's, and never enters the ranking.

Sources

Where each number comes from

Epoch AI, "AI Benchmarking Hub". Published at epoch.ai. Data under the CC BY 4.0 licence, reordered by roo3.co.

The Arena (LMArena) leaderboard, from the public lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We are not affiliated with the Arena.

LiveBench, by the LiveBench team, published at livebench.ai under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The overall average is recomputed by roo3.co with the same formula as the website (average of the categories), and those numbers stay under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are not affiliated with LiveBench.

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