Artificial intelligence (AI) is being researched extensively by major companies, but one online group wants to democratize the process.

EleutherAI is a recently formed collective of volunteer researchers, engineers, and developers focused on open-source AI research. The organization uses the GPT-Neo and GPT-NeoX codebases to train massive language models that it plans to release under open licenses.

“Open source data is beneficial for researchers because scientists have more free resources to train models and complete research,” Edward Cui, CEO of AI company Graviti, told Lifewire in an email interview. His company is not involved with EueutherAI. “We know that dozens of AI projects have been held back by a general lack of high-quality data from real-world use cases, so it’s vital to establish guidelines that ensure data quality, with the help of the participating community.”

EleutherAI’s early years were modest. Last year, an independent AI researcher named Connor Leahy posted the following message on a Discord server: “Hey guys, lets give [SIC] OpenAI a run for their money, like the good old days.”