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Nat Lambert and Tom Zick announce Trillium Labs, a new non-profit aimed at advancing the open science of frontier AI, starting with open post-training recipes and expanding into infrastructure for studying RSI, reward hacking, and multi-agent systems. The organization has initial backing from Halcyon Futures and Schmidt Sciences and is hiring and seeking compute.

Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs @trillium_labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. We're built around the theory of change that you need more eyes to solve hard technical problems. We have faith in the scientific methods and communities that humanity has built, and worry that AI is becoming too closed to utilize them. Trilliums are wildflowers that bloom briefly in the spring, before the forest canopies fill out. Though they are small, they lay the foundation for the cycles of growth and nourishment through the rest of the year. At Trillium Labs, the recipes will be the slow nutrients for the seasons and the model releases will be the blooms. Building an institution dedicated to this is needed because, much as nature’s trilliums are slow to expand and grow, the open-ecosystem needs time and dedicated resources to catch up. I co-founded with with a long-time friend and collaborator Tom Zick (@thesezickbeats). We're hiring (full time + student collabs/interns), we're fundraising, and we're looking for compute. Please get in touch if you're interested in helping out. Offices based in the Bay Area and Cambridge MA, remote okay. I’m in the Bay Area until for The Curve and COLM to connect with people who are interested. We’re thankful to have initial support from Halcyon Futures and Schmidt Sciences with more funding en route to enable our ambitions of scaling. Our advisors @Thom_Wolf, @HannaHajishirzi, @gneubig and @ctnzr have been instrumental to building the ecosystem that exists today, and I’m stoked to get to keep working with them.
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Today we’re unveiling Trillium Labs @trillium_labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We’re building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next.

We’re built around the theory of change that you need more eyes to solve hard technical problems. We have faith in the scientific methods and communities that humanity has built, and worry that AI is becoming too closed to utilize them.

Trilliums are wildflowers that bloom briefly in the spring, before the forest canopies fill out. Though they are small, they lay the foundation for the cycles of growth and nourishment through the rest of the year. At Trillium Labs, the recipes will be the slow nutrients for the seasons and the model releases will be the blooms. Building an institution dedicated to this is needed because, much as nature’s trilliums are slow to expand and grow, the open-ecosystem needs time and dedicated resources to catch up.

I co-founded with with a long-time friend and collaborator Tom Zick (@thesezickbeats). We’re hiring (full time + student collabs/interns), we’re fundraising, and we’re looking for compute. Please get in touch if you’re interested in helping out. Offices based in the Bay Area and Cambridge MA, remote okay.

I’m in the Bay Area until for The Curve and COLM to connect with people who are interested. We’re thankful to have initial support from Halcyon Futures and Schmidt Sciences with more funding en route to enable our ambitions of scaling. Our advisors @Thom_Wolf, @HannaHajishirzi, @gneubig and @ctnzr have been instrumental to building the ecosystem that exists today, and I’m stoked to get to keep working with them.

Learn about us in Wired: https://wired.com/story/trillium-labs-wants-to-do-high-risk-ai-research-in-the-open/… Read our introductory blog post here: https://blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/introducing-trillium-labs… Our website: https://trilliumlabs.org If you’re interested in joining us, fill this out: https://trilliumlabs.org/join-us

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Amazing news – Congrats @natolambert!

Congratulations @natolambert !! Very excited for this!

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