LAION

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LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) provides open large-scale machine learning datasets and research resources.

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Related projects LocalAI, OpenLLM, StableLM, Falcon, Yi, Argilla, Jurassic-1, BLOOM (OSS Project) Related organizations Argilla, NOUS RESEARCH, Explosion, Hugging Face, Scale AI, Denvr Dataworks, Silo AI, Stability AI