Just Launched, OpenAssistant AI, The Open-source ChatGPT Rival?

On Sunday the 16th of April Open Assistant was launched, it describes itself as: "Conversational AI for everyone.We believe we can create a revolution.

In the same way that Stable Diffusion helped the world make art and images in new ways, we want to improve the world by providing amazing conversational AI."

"Open Assistant is a project organized by LAION and individuals around the world interested in bringing this technology to everyone."

LAION is "Funded by donations and public research grants, our aim is to open all cornerstone results from such an important field as large-scale machine learning to all interested communities."

One of the important things about this model is the training data will also be released in a Creative Commons license.

OpenAssistant promises to be a very timely and useful addition to the expanding library of tools, and to me, it being Open Source still, it's more interesting than most, but needs significant training.

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