EleutherAI
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EleutherAI () is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research group. The group, considered an open-source version of OpenAI, was formed in a Discord server in 2020 to create an open-source version of GPT-3. In early 2023, it formally incorporated as the EleutherAI Institute, a non-profit research institute. As of 2025, the nonprofit maintains widely-used training datasets, conducts research, and is involved in public policy, among other activities.
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- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Field of work
- Artificial intelligence
- Country
- United States
- Official website
- www.eleuther.ai
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- inception
- 2023-01-25
- member of
- Open Source Initiative
- Commons category
- EleutherAI
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Research
- The Pile
- Common Pile
- GPT models
- VQGAN-CLIP
- See also
- References
EleutherAI () is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research group. The group, considered an open-source version of OpenAI, was formed in a Discord server in 2020 to create an open-source version of GPT-3. In early 2023, it formally incorporated as the EleutherAI Institute, a non-profit research institute. As of 2025, the nonprofit maintains widely-used training datasets, conducts research, and is involved in public policy, among other activities.
== History == EleutherAI began as a Discord server on July 7, 2020, under the tentative name "LibreAI" before rebranding to "EleutherAI" later that month, in reference to eleutheria, the Greek word for liberty. Its founding members are Connor Leahy, Leo Gao, and Sid Black. They co-wrote the code for EleutherAI to serve as a collection of open source AI research, creating a machine learning model similar to GPT-3.
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