An open-source, community-driven project dedicated to creating a free, high-quality, chat-based AI assistant by crowdsourcing a massive dataset of human-generated conversations and instructions for training publicly available models.
OpenAssistant is a project by LAION and a global community of volunteers aimed at creating a truly open alternative to proprietary conversational AI like ChatGPT. Its core function was a web platform for people to submit, rate, and rank conversational prompts and AI responses, thereby creating a large-scale, high-quality instruction dataset. This dataset, known as OASST1, is publicly available and has been used to train various open-source language models. The project's unique value lies in its complete transparency, with the code, data, and models all released under permissive licenses. It primarily serves AI researchers, developers, and hobbyists who want to build upon or experiment with an open, community-built conversational AI foundation.
AI researchers, open-source developers, machine learning engineers, students, and hobbyists interested in building and fine-tuning large language models.
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2022
Hamburg, Germany
Open Source
The entire project, including the dataset, source code, and pre-trained models, is available for free under permissive open-source licenses.
Free
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