Anthropic to Google: Who’s winning against AI hallucinations?

Galileo, a leading developer of generative AI for enterprise applications, has released its latest Hallucination Index.

The evaluation framework – which focuses on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) – assessed 22 prominent Gen AI LLMs from major players including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. This year’s index expanded significantly, adding 11 new models to reflect the rapid growth in both open- and closed-source LLMs over the past eight months.

Vikram Chatterji, CEO and Co-founder of Galileo, said: “In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, developers and enterprises face a critical challenge: how to harness the power of generative AI while balancing cost, accuracy, and reliability. Current benchmarks are often based on academic use-cases, rather than real-world applications.”

The index employed Galileo’s proprietary evaluation metric, context adherence, to check for output inaccuracies across various input lengths, ranging from 1,000 to 100,000 tokens. This approach aims to help enterprises make informed decisions about balancing price and performance in their AI implementations.

Key findings from the index include:

• Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet emerged as the best overall performing model, consistently scoring near-perfect across short, medium, and long context scenarios.
• Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash ranked as the best performing model in terms of cost-effectiveness, delivering strong performance across all tasks.
• Alibaba’s Qwen2-72B-Instruct stood out as the top open-source model, particularly excelling in short and medium context scenarios.

The index also highlighted several trends in the LLM landscape:

• Open-source models are rapidly closing the gap with their closed-source counterparts, offering improved hallucination performance at lower costs.
• Current RAG LLMs demonstrate significant improvements in handling extended context lengths without sacrificing quality or accuracy.
• Smaller models sometimes outperform larger ones, suggesting that efficient design can be more crucial than scale.
• The emergence of strong performers from outside the US, such as Mistral’s Mistral-large and Alibaba’s qwen2-72b-instruct, indicates a growing global competition in LLM development.

While closed-source models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Flash maintain their lead due to proprietary training data, the index reveals that the landscape is evolving rapidly. Google’s performance was particularly noteworthy, with its open-source Gemma-7b model performing poorly while its closed-source Gemini 1.5 Flash consistently ranked near the top.

As the AI industry continues to grapple with hallucinations as a major hurdle to production-ready Gen AI products, Galileo’s Hallucination Index provides valuable insights for enterprises looking to adopt the right model for their specific needs and budget constraints.

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