The recipients include Common Crawl, Axolotl (Wing Lian), SkyPilot, LMSys (Lianmin Zheng, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ying Sheng), LLaVA (Haotian Liu), Deforum (Huemin), and Lucidrains. These individuals and organizations are recognized for their contributions to the open source AI ecosystem.
Key takeaways:
- The second batch of a16z Open Source AI Grant recipients has been announced, designed to support the open source ecosystem around modern AI.
- The program provides grant funding to developers and small teams building critical components of the open source AI stack.
- The focus of this cohort is mainly on tools for training, hosting, and evaluating language models, and models and communities built around visual AI.
- The recipients include Common Crawl, Axolotl, SkyPilot, LMSys, LLaVA, Deforum, and Lucidrains, all contributing to the open source AI ecosystem.