We are open source AI The path forwardAnd we're excited that developers around the world are already using open source models such as: llama To shape the future.
This year, we're hosting a series of events to build the open source community. Support llama developers Through mentorship, funding, and a wide network. These developers are launching innovative projects across science, education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and more. Their projects demonstrate the unique benefits of open source AI and how transparency and accessible source code enable collaboration, ingenuity, and flexibility. These are the very qualities needed for safe and stable development of AI.
Here are a selection of stories about how these developers are using open source AI to solve pressing global problems.
health and science
city of hope
At City of Hope National Medical Center, researchers are using LLM to build tools for cancer doctors, including tools to match cancer patients with relevant clinical trials.
“Given the scale and sensitivity of text data generated in clinics, healthcare is one of the best and most urgent applications for LLMs.”
– Kingson Man, Principal Data Scientist, City of Hope
Mann explains that 40% of cancer clinical trials fail because they can't find enough eligible patients, and only 3% to 7% of patients enroll in the trial. To address this gap, City of Hope has built a matching tool that analyzes whether a specific clinical trial's eligibility criteria apply to current City of Hope patients and generates a matching score. did. Match scores allow physicians to uncover additional clinical trials that may have been overlooked as a consideration for their patients.
Genetic Perspective
otonoCo uses open source LLM to power Gene Outlook, a platform designed to accelerate the discovery and extraction of insights from data, especially in the field of genomics.
Researchers use Gene Outlook to find important gene signatures and other types of gene-related data in cancer patients. Llama then transforms genetic symbols into content that scientists and companies can easily understand. OtonCo also The microbial recognition LLM on top of Llama is called GeneTuned LLM and is in the process of extending Gene Outlook into the gut health and microbiome space.
“With open source, we don't have to worry about creating new AI algorithms. We just focus on a problem and work backwards to see what open source technologies are suitable to solve that problem. You can consider it.”
– Mr. John Hung Hsiung, Founder and Chairman of OtonoCo
education
DLYog Lab
DLYog Lab was co-founded by Tarun Chawdhury and Mousum Chawdhury, inspired by their experience with their special needs son. Together, they developed a GenAI-powered app that simplifies the process of creating an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for special education.
The app processes recordings of IEP meetings with parents, children, teachers, and professionals and creates an educational plan detailing goals and services for your child.
“Llama helps small businesses like ours realize their dreams for social good. It was created for the benefit of my son, but now it has helped many others. We can extend this to parents as well.”
– Tarun Chowdhury, Co-Founder, DLYog Lab
DLYog's app allows teachers to quickly create individualized plans based on a child's profile, and Llama's publicly accessible, open-source architecture quickly enables small educational institutions, such as private schools. Can be expanded. The app can be deployed in private data centers with minimal infrastructure requirements, allowing small schools and private institutions concerned about data security to deploy the app within their own boundaries. And with the latest version of Llama, DLYog Lab's app analyzes nonverbal cues such as facial expressions and eye movements, enabling insights beyond traditional approaches to IEPs.
Pratham Educational Foundation
Pratham Education Foundation (PEF) in India used Llama to build a solution for young mothers to learn about child care and early childhood education. Accessing this information on the open web can be difficult and often provides confusing or contradictory information.
“Social Good must be open source. As a non-revenue generating organization, it's important to us to get the most value for our dollar. This is also how Llama really helped.”
– Nishant Baghel, Director of Technology Innovation, PEF
PEF's WhatsApp-based chatbot supports 12 Indian languages and allows mothers to interact with the bot using voice rather than typing. The bot generates audio and video answers based on verified documents and also sends video links that help mothers understand the information they need. More than 40,000 mothers in India are using this product.
According to Nishant Baghel, director of technology innovation at PEF, Llama will serve as PEF's “backbone” for generating and consuming knowledge.
Small business and entrepreneurship
HiiiWAV
HiiiWAV is an Oakland, California-based incubator that teaches artists, especially Black musicians, how to use AI to build startups. Their goal is to help these artists understand and harness the power of AI and machine learning.
HiiiWAV encourages open source technology because keeping costs low is important for early-stage startups. Open source technology levels the playing field by expanding access to often expensive and advanced technical tools. Among the options available, they call Llama “top of the list.” This is because not only does it reduce costs, but it also allows you to build a community and share information freely.
“Off-the-shelf closed-source options become expensive and difficult to build as you use them. We also build AI-powered hardware, which gives you control and customization freedom that closed-source options don’t have. Open source is definitely the way to go.”
– Bosko Kante, HiiiWAV Executive Director
Entrepreneurs at the HiiiWAV incubator use open source AI to build a variety of tools, including GooRoo, a mobile audio-assisted record producer, and Choice Scores, an AI-powered platform that converts hip-hop songs into sheet music. I've been doing it.
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AIIRA is the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture, building AI tools to help farmers with their daily tasks. Their aim is to accelerate the adoption of AI among farmers to help improve crops and solve production challenges. Llama's open-source technology enables multilingual, geographic, and context-sensitive fine-tuning, allowing organizations to use different models that work in specific regions. AIIRA uses Llama to generate personalized recommendations to farmers for dealing with pests and weeds.
“The ability to deploy open source AI at scale is transformative, and it works not just in the United States, but in Africa, India, and around the world. I hope the spirit of the sauce continues.”
– Chinmay Hegde, AIIRA member and professor at New York University
These innovations from Llama demonstrate how open source AI is positively impacting the world, and we look forward to seeing the global community continue to realize the potential of open source AI.
