The End of Open Assistant: Mission Accomplished

🎉Open Assistant's mission of reproducing chat GPT in the open and collecting data has been accomplished.

🏆Open Assistant has paved the way for open source chat models and contributed to the growth of the open source ecosystem.

💪Open Assistant has collected a high-quality and ethical dataset with contributors' full consent and intent.

🚀Open Assistant's achievements include building a data collection infrastructure, training models, and conducting RL experiments.

💡Other individuals and organizations will continue to train better and bigger models, improving on the work started by Open Assistant.

Why is Open Assistant coming to an end?

—Open Assistant's mission has been accomplished, and the decision to stop is to prevent it from becoming a zombie project and to allow others to continue the work.

What will happen to the collected data?

—The collected data, including the high-quality dataset, will be released for others to use. Efforts will be made to clean and release chat data with annotations.

Will there be any further updates or projects from Open Assistant?

—Open Assistant is turning its focus to other projects, including Open Empathic, which deals with data collection for empathic conversations.

How can contributors be acknowledged?

—Contributors can go to their account section on the Open Assistant platform and provide their name and acknowledgment preferences.

Is Open Assistant shutting down completely?

—While the chat interface and data collection platform will no longer be maintained, the code is open source, and others can use it to build their own projects.

00:00Open Assistant is coming to an end, as the mission of reproducing chat GPT in the open and collecting necessary data has been accomplished.

02:54Open Assistant collected a high-quality and ethical dataset with contributors' full consent and intent.

05:27The collected data, including the high-quality dataset, will be released for others to use.

06:38Open Assistant is turning its focus to other projects, including Open Empathic for data collection in empathic conversations.

08:37The chat interface and data collection platform will no longer be maintained, but the code is open source for others to use.