{"id":142339,"date":"2022-07-16T20:49:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/an-open-access-multilingual-ai"},"modified":"2022-07-16T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:49:47","slug":"an-open-access-multilingual-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/an-open-access-multilingual-ai","title":{"rendered":"An open-access, multilingual AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-open-access-multilingual-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new language model similar in scale to GPT-3 is being made freely available and could help to democratise access to AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/bigscience\/bloom\" target=\"_blank\">BLOOM<\/a> (which stands for BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model) has been developed by 1,000 volunteer researchers from over 70 countries and 250 institutions, supported by ethicists, philosophers, and legal experts, in a collaboration called BigScience. The project, coordinated by New York-based startup Hugging Face, used funding from the French government.<\/p>\n<p>The new AI took more than a year of planning and training, which included a final run of 117 days (11th March \u2013 6th July) using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idris.fr\/eng\/jean-zay\/jean-zay-presentation-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Zay<\/a>, one of Europe\u2019s most powerful supercomputers, located in the south of Paris, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new language model similar in scale to GPT-3 is being made freely available and could help to democratise access to AI. BLOOM (which stands for BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model) has been developed by 1,000 volunteer researchers from over 70 countries and 250 institutions, supported by ethicists, philosophers, and legal experts, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}