EleutherAI

An EleutherAI Institute is an American AI-focused non-profit research institute dedicated to the open and ethical development of advanced AI models.

Context:
- It can create language models that are freely available to the public, such as GPT-Neo and GPT-J.
- It can focus on producing high-quality datasets like The Pile for training large-scale models.
- It can (often) collaborate with independent developers and research institutions to push the boundaries of AI research.
- It can engage in discussions on AI ethics and AI safety.
- It can develop specialized models such as Pythia, designed for scientific research on training dynamics.
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Example(s):
- EleutherAI's Open Source for Large-scale Optimization (OSLO), a framework for optimizing large-scale model training.
- EleutherAI Pythia, a suite of models for studying the training process and biases in large language models.
- GPT-Neo, an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s GPT-3.
- GPT-J, a powerful 6-billion-parameter language model.
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Counter-Example(s):
- OpenAI, which follows a hybrid open/closed research model with for-profit considerations.
- DeepMind, which primarily focuses on proprietary research under Alphabet Inc.
- Stability AI, which is also community-driven but operates as a private company.
- Anthropic, which focuses on AI safety but with more controlled releases.
- Midjourney, Inc., which specializes in image generation models rather than text-based models.
- Adept AI.
See: Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, GPT-J, GPT-J-6B.

References

(ChatGPT-OpenAI, 2023) ⇒ https://chat.openai.com/chat Retrieved: 2023-04-02.
- Q: What is EleutherAI?
- A: EleutherAI is an open-source project focused on advancing the field of artificial intelligence by creating high-quality language models that are freely available to the public. The project was founded in 2020 by a group of researchers who wanted to create a community-driven alternative to the large tech companies that dominate the AI industry. EleutherAI is committed to open science, transparency, and collaboration, and is entirely run by volunteers from around the world. The project's flagship language model is called GPT-Neo, which is an open-source implementation of the GPT architecture that is comparable in size and performance to models developed by large tech companies.

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EleutherAI Retrieved:2023-3-19.
- EleutherAI is a grass-roots non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research group. The group, considered an open source version of OpenAI,^[1] was formed in a Discord server in July 2020, two years before it was officially incorporated. Despite a lack of formal funding or organizational structure, it rapidly became a leading player in natural language processing research, releasing the largest open-source GPT-3-like model in the world March 21, 2021.

↑ Smith, Craig (21 March 2022). "EleutherAI: When OpenAI Isn't Open Enough". IEEE Spectrum. IEEE. Retrieved 17 December 2022.