Best Instruct-Trained Alternative to Alpaca/Vicuna?

To the best of my understanding, if I want to use Alpaca or Vicuna variants, I need to get the original LLaMa weights, and for whatever reason FB is blocking anyone from my institution from access. Given that, what's the best alternative in the 7-13b range for instruct-trained models?

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