EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit
Not sure why the AI community has a weird obsession with being non-profit (or not). It's not like non-profits can't be evil, and it's not like OpenAI has done anything particularly egregious, either.<p>What we <i>do</i> need is more weights being released in the public domain (hard to find even on Huggingface), easier ways to train models locally, better pruned models for embedded device inference (e.g. running on a Jetson Nano), easier ways to fine-tune for specific contexts, and so on. My big gripe, and for obvious reasons, is that we need to step away from cloud-based inference, and it doesn't seem like anyone's working on that.