EAI has always been a community-driven organization that people tend to contribute to in their spare time, around their jobs. I for example have had a dayjob of one sort or another for most of EAI’s existence. So from this angle, nothing has changed aside from the fact my job is more demanding now.
Sid and I still contribute to EAI on the meta level (moderation, organization, deciding on projects to pursue), but do admittedly have less time to dedicate to it these days. Thankfully, Eleuther is not just us—we have a bunch of projects going on at any one time, and progress for EAI doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
We are still open to the idea of releasing larger models with EAI, and funding may happen, but it’s no longer our priority to pursue that, and the technical lead of that project (Sid) has much less time to dedicate to it.
Conjecture staff will occasionally contribute to EAI projects, when we think it’s appropriate.
How are you negotiating EleutherAI participation? Or are you just done with EAI now?
EAI has always been a community-driven organization that people tend to contribute to in their spare time, around their jobs. I for example have had a dayjob of one sort or another for most of EAI’s existence. So from this angle, nothing has changed aside from the fact my job is more demanding now.
Sid and I still contribute to EAI on the meta level (moderation, organization, deciding on projects to pursue), but do admittedly have less time to dedicate to it these days. Thankfully, Eleuther is not just us—we have a bunch of projects going on at any one time, and progress for EAI doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
We are still open to the idea of releasing larger models with EAI, and funding may happen, but it’s no longer our priority to pursue that, and the technical lead of that project (Sid) has much less time to dedicate to it.
Conjecture staff will occasionally contribute to EAI projects, when we think it’s appropriate.