Empowering Open-Source Artificial Intelligence Research
Founded in July 2020 by Connor Leahy, Sid Black, and Leo Gao, EleutherAI has grown from a Discord server for talking about GPT‑3 to a leading non-profit research institute focused on large-scale artificial intelligence research. Our work has historically focused on providing access to cutting‑edge AI technologies by training and releasing models, and promoting open science norms in Natural Language Processing. As public access to large-scale pre‑trained AI models has substantially improved, our focus is shifting to researching AI interpretability and alignment. EleutherAI operates primarily through our public Discord server, where we discuss research in the field and coordinate our projects. We embrace an open and collaborative research model, and our discord server does not strongly differentiate between employees, volunteers, and collaborators at other institutions. However, our community specifically caters to researchers and research-level discussion, and we ask that people interested in learning about AI research primarily observe. EleutherAI employs two dozen full and part‑time research staff, who work alongside a dozen or so regular volunteers and external collaborators.
