Supporting the Open Supply AI Neighborhood
We consider synthetic intelligence has the ability to save the world—and {that a} thriving open supply ecosystem is important to constructing this future.
Fortunately, the open supply ecosystem is beginning to develop, and we at the moment are seeing open supply fashions that rival closed-source alternate options. A whole lot of small groups and people are additionally working to make these fashions extra helpful, accessible, and performant.
These initiatives push the state-of-the-art in open supply AI and assist present a extra strong and complete understanding of the expertise. They embrace: instruction-tuning base LLMs; eradicating censorship from LLM outputs; optimizing fashions for low-powered machines; constructing novel tooling for mannequin inference; researching LLM safety points; and plenty of others.
Nevertheless, the individuals behind these initiatives usually don’t have the sources accessible to pursue their work to conclusion or preserve it in the long term. The state of affairs is extra acute in AI than conventional infrastructure, since even fine-tuning fashions requires vital GPU computing sources, particularly as open supply fashions get bigger.
To assist shut this useful resource hole, we’re saying in the present day the a16z Open Supply AI Grant program. We’ll help a small group of open supply builders by means of grant funding (not an funding or SAFE word), giving them the chance to proceed their work with out the strain to generate monetary returns.
We’re additionally saying the primary batch of grant recipients and funded initiatives:
We wish to thank them for his or her contributions to the sector, and for fostering open collaboration, studying, and development in AI.
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