--- title: What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year... description: EleutherAI reflects on its first year since founding in mid-2020, tracing its origins from a Discord server experiment to a recognized open-source AI research... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-a-long-strange-trip-it-s-been-eleutherai-one-year-retrospective-cthyiu4vz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective | daily.dev og:description: EleutherAI reflects on its first year since founding in mid-2020, tracing its origins from a Discord server experiment to a recognized open-source AI research... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-a-long-strange-trip-it-s-been-eleutherai-one-year-retrospective-cthyiu4vz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CthyIU4vz.png og:image:alt: What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective **[EleutherAI](https://daily.dev/sources/eleutherai)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary EleutherAI reflects on its first year since founding in mid-2020, tracing its origins from a Discord server experiment to a recognized open-source AI research collective. Key milestones include building the Pile dataset, releasing GPT-Neo (1.3B and 2.7B parameter models), training GPT-J (6B parameters), launching GPT-NeoX for 175B+ scale training, and spinning off a BioML research group working on AlphaFold2 replication. The post also highlights the community's AI safety and alignment focus, arguing that open access to large pretrained models is essential for safety research. Multiple team members share personal reflections on how the project shaped their careers and research directions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [\[AINews\] not much happened today](https://daily.dev/posts/ainews-not-much-happened-today-hl5o5ialh) · Latent Space · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Sam Altman promised billions for AI safety. 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