Open-source releaseCritical global significanceConfirmed confidence
EleutherAI releases GPT-Neo
EleutherAI releases an early open alternative to GPT-3.
What happened
Event details
EleutherAI released GPT-Neo on March 21, 2021. The model has 2.7B parameters, is open source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the official EleutherAI GPT-Neo code repository is the primary source.
Assessment
Why it matters
An open-source model release with a documented model, parameter scale or access condition.
99/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Publicly available as an open-source model.