Zephyr-7B-alpha is an open-source language model from HuggingFace, developed as the first in the Zephyr series and based on Mistral-7B, with improvements that allow it to surpass Llama 2 70B Chat on the MT Bench. This model, available on the Clarifai Platform through an API, has been fine-tuned using Direct Preference Optimization on both publicly available and synthetic datasets, and the removal of in-built dataset alignment has enhanced its performance. It is particularly effective in chat applications, having been trained on the UltraChat dataset with further refinement using Hugging Face's DPOTrainer and UltraFeedback dataset, although it lacks alignment with human preferences through techniques like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. Users can interact with Zephyr-7B-alpha using a specific prompt template, and it can be run using various programming languages, including Python and JavaScript, enhancing its accessibility and integration into different platforms.