# GPT 2.5-open source

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/gpt-2-5-open-source/1982>\
**Category:** Models\
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/gpt-2-5-open-source/1982 "2020-11-11T08:41:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Srulikbdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Srulikbdd](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Srulikbdd)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/gpt-2-5-open-source/1982/1 "2020-11-11T08:41:31Z")

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What are the best models for text generation, similar to GPT2, but newer and open sourced? (Opposed to GPT 3)

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**Author:** ![thomwolf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/thomwolf/32/2198_2.png) [@thomwolf](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/thomwolf)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/gpt-2-5-open-source/1982/2 "2020-11-12T12:45:55Z")

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It depends what type of generation you want to do.

T5, BART, Pegasus, groover, CTRL are good models for instance.

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**Author:** ![Srulikbd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Srulikbd](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Srulikbd)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/gpt-2-5-open-source/1982/3 "2020-11-12T23:50:32Z")

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Thanks!  
I want to mimick texts for example from Twitter…  
So what do you recommend? 🤗🤗🤗