Open-source releaseModerate global significanceConfirmed confidence
EleutherAI releases GPT-J
EleutherAI releases an early open 6-billion-parameter model that sees broad academic use.
What happened
Event details
EleutherAI released GPT-J on June 9, 2021. The model has 6B parameters, is open source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the official EleutherAI GPT-J-6B model card is the primary source.
Assessment
Why it matters
An open-source model release with a documented model, parameter scale or access condition.
67/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Publicly available as an open-source model.