Orca 2

Microsoft · 2023 · LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Microsoft
C · CEO & Politics: Satya Nadella — Centrist / moderate
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI), Kevin Scott (CTO)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free for non-commercial research (open weights, Microsoft Research License)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Microsoft Research's Orca 2 (November 2023), 7B and 13B research models built on Llama 2 and trained on synthetic data that teaches small models several reasoning strategies, such as step-by-step, recall-then-generate and direct answer, and when to use each; across 15 benchmarks it significantly surpassed models of similar size and matched or beat models 5-10x larger on complex zero-shot reasoning. It is not optimized for chat, and its weights are released for research.
S · Stock / Status: $516 (MSFT, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @Microsoft
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from Microsoft, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Orca 2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/orca-2.html