News & releases
Commentary, releases, and updates from LAION and the open scientific community.
Follow via RSSToday we are releasing LAION-BVD (Big Video Dataset), a large-scale open video dataset designed for multimodal machine learning research. LAION-BVD contains: 1.3 billion platform-specific video URLs collected from Common Crawl 80 million downloaded videos 10 m…
We introduce and release open-sci-ref 0.01 - a research dense transformer model family with all the intermediate checkpoints trained on 8 different well establi…
Access - Repository : https://github.com/SLAMPAI/game reasoning arena - Documentation : Complete installation, usage, and extension guides available at Game Rea…
Building Emotionally Intelligent AI with EmoNet, a suite of open tools and resources developed by the LAION community A LAION & Intel Collaboration Authors LAIO…
Today marks a milestone in our journey towards democratizing education and empathy through technology. LAION e.V. is thrilled to announce the release of BUD-E v…
LAION announces the LAION-DISCO-12M - a collection of 12 million links to publicly available YouTube samples paired with metadata to support basic machine learn…
Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) is honored to become an Intel AI/oneAPI Center of Excellence to advance the development of BUD-E (Buddy…
Today, following a safety revision procedure, we announce Re-LAION-5B, an updated version of LAION-5B, that is the first web-scale, text-link to images pair dat…
AI voice assistants have revolutionized our interaction with technology, answering queries, performing tasks, and making life easier. However, the stilted, mech…
LAION POP is a subset of LAION 5B: This subset comprises 600,000 high-resolution images, each equipped with detailed descriptions. The selection of images was b…
We are thrilled to present Open Empathic , a pioneering open-source project initiated by our non-profit organization, LAION. Open Empathic aims to equip open-so…
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) underscore the progress of reasoning and planning shown by recent generalist machine learning (ML) models. T…
Voices carry not only words but also convey emotions, emphasis, and nuance through aspects like tone and accent. However, existing speech technology only partia…
We proudly introduce LeoLM ( L inguistically E nhanced O pen L anguage M odel), the first comprehensive suite of German-language Foundation Language Models trai…
Introduction We release OpenLM a simple and minimalist PyTorch codebase for training medium-sized language models. OpenLM is designed to maximize GPU utilizatio…
Following our previous open letter to the European Parliament on the significance of open-source AI, LAION, backed by European Laboratory for Learning and Intel…
We happily announce that we, LAION, won the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023 Award in the category Science and Innovation Management for "dem…
[[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06595) [[Code]](https://github.com/mlfoundations/VisIT-Bench/) [[Dataset]](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlfoundations/Vi…
We are thrilled to announce Objaverse-XL, an open dataset of over 10 million 3D objects! Using it, we train Zero123-XL, a foundation model for 3D that displays…
[[GitHub]](https://github.com/iejMac/video2dataset) Within only two years large foundational models like CLIP, Stable Diffusion, and Flamingo have fundamentally…
[[GitHub]](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open flamingo) [[Demo]](https://huggingface.co/spaces/openflamingo/OpenFlamingo) [[Models]](https://huggingface.co/o…
[[ Paper ]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14108) [[ Code ]](https://github.com/mlfoundations/datacomp) [[ Website ]](http://datacomp.ai/) About a year ago, we rele…
Overview. We are releasing a new Paella model which builds on top of our initial paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07292. Paella is a text-to-image model that wo…
LINK TO OUR PETITION Authors: Christoph Schuhmann, Huu Nguyen, Robert Kaczmarczyk, Jenia Jitsev & LAION community Securing Our Digital Future: Calling for CERN…
Overview. We are thrilled to announce the release of OpenFlamingo, an open-source reproduction of DeepMind's Flamingo model. At its core, OpenFlamingo is a fram…
The Open Instruction Generalist (OIG) dataset is a large open source instruction dataset that currently contains 43M instructions. OIG is one of many chatbot da…
We introduce a new model type to OpenClip Contrastive Captioners (CoCa) [1]. This model adds an autoregressive objective (generation) on top of the CLIP contras…
Today we release a KNN index for LAION-5B that allows for fast queries of the dataset with the open clip ViT-H-14 CLIP model. This means that users can search t…
We have trained a new ViT-G/14 CLIP model with OpenCLIP which achieves 80.1% zero-shot accuracy on ImageNet and 74.9% zero-shot image retrieval (Recall@5) on MS…
Author: Konstantinos Thoukydidis, hlky We are happy to announce that LAION will be assisted by the Stable Horde to provide aesthetic ratings for existing datase…
Author: Christoph Schuhmann, Andreas Köpf , Theo Coombes, Richard Vencu, Benjamin Trom , Romain Beaumont We present LAION-COCO, the world’s largest dataset of 6…
Author: Marianna Nezhurina Romain Beaumont Richard Vencu Christoph Schuhmann Laion5B dataset was automatically collected from a section of the human web (common…
We trained three large CLIP models with OpenCLIP: ViT-L/14, ViT-H/14 and ViT-g/14 (ViT-g/14 was trained only for about a third the epochs compared to the rest).…
We present LAION-Aesthetics, several collections of subsets from LAION 5B with high visual quality. To create LAION-Aesthetics we trained several lightweight mo…
We present a dataset of 5,85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs, 14x bigger than LAION-400M, previously the biggest openly accessible image-text dataset in…
We present LAION-400M: 400M English (image, text) pairs - see also our Data Centric AI NeurIPS Workshop 2021 paper Concept and Content The LAION-400M dataset is…
