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Models (v4 are the ones from the paper): https://huggingface.co/RWKV
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BlinkDL has been working on this project for two-ish years, originally in the EleutherAI discord and then created his own to house the project.
I wasn’t thinking too hard about my exact wording, but yes I was thinking of EleutherAI and its various spin-off servers. EleutherAI doesn’t /run/ any of the other servers, but we all have a close collaborative relationship. I’m sure there’s a lot of duplication of membership (e.g., I’m in all of them) but quickly adding up the membership of each server comes out to around 70,000. EleutherAI and LAION are the largest at 25k each, with the others typically having around 5k each. I would expect at least 30k of those users to be unique though.
But I’m confused by the anti non-profit vibes in this comment section. We aren’t saying that becoming a non-profit makes us ethical people, that would be a silly argument. But people do realize that the alternative would be to become a for-profit entity right?
We’re still the same community-driven open collaborative research lab we’ve always been. But incorporating allows us to do things like hire full time staff, enter organizationally binding legal agreements, and protect our members. Between the options of becoming a for-profit and a non-profit, the later seems clearly better suited for our goals.
We also developed VQGAN-CLIP and CLIP-Guided Diffusion, techniques for doing text-to-image synthesis that don't require training and can easily be run locally for inference.
There's a discussion of this in the VQGAN-CLIP paper, see in particular 6.1 "Efficiency as a Value" https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08583
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of the VQGAN-CLIP paper and was tangentially involved with Stable Diffusion.