LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
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:memo: NOTE: OpenAssistant is completed, and the project is now finished. Thank you to everyone who contributed! Check out our blog post for more information. The final published oasst2 dataset can be found on HuggingFace at OpenAssistant/oasst2 Open Assistant is a project meant to give everyone access to a great chat based large language model. We believe that by doing this we will create a revolution in innovation in language. In the same way that stable-diffusion helped the world make art and images in new ways we hope Open Assistant can help improve the world by improving language itself. The chat frontend is now live here. Log in and start chatting! Please try to react with a thumbs up or down for the assistant's responses when chatting. The data collection frontend is now live here. Log in and start taking on tasks! We want to collect a high volume of…
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- Table of Contents
- What is Open Assistant?
- Useful Links
- How To Try It Out
- Chatting with the AI
- Contributing to Data Collection
- Running the Development Setup Locally (without chat)
- Running the Development Setup Locally for Chat
- The Vision
- The Plan
- We want to get to an initial MVP as fast as possible, by following the 3-steps outlined in the Instr
- Slide Decks
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What this repository does
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Repository facts
- Owner
- LAION-AI
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 37,360
- Forks
- 3,262
- Open issues + pull requests
- 295
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2022-12-13T05:24:17.000Z
- Last push
- 2024-08-17T01:55:35.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai, assistant, chatgpt, discord-bot, language-model, machine-learning, nextjs, python, rlhf
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