Connor Leahy

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Connor Leahy

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Born| March 1995 (age 28)[1]
Nationality| German-American
Occupation| Entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Organization| EleutherAI, Conjecture
Known for| Co-founder and co-lead of EleutherAI, founder of Conjecture

Notable work

| GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, BLOOM, VQGAN-CLIP, Stable Diffusion, OpenFold

Connor Leahy is an German-American entrepreneur and artificial intelligence researcher. He is best known as a co-founder and co-lead of EleutherAI, a grassroots non-profit organization focused on advancing open-source artificial intelligence research.[2][3] Leahy is also the founder of Conjecture, a startup working on AI alignment, the task of making machine learning models controllable.[4]

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 EleutherAI
* 3 Conjecture
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Early life and education[edit]

Leahy is a self-taught coder who, at the age of 24, reverse-engineered OpenAI's large language model (LLM) GPT-2 in 2019. This experience marked the beginning of his journey in the field of AI research.[4]

## EleutherAI[edit]

Leahy co-founded EleutherAI during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, along with Leo Gao and Sid Black.[3] Originally a Discord server for discussing GPT-3, EleutherAI evolved into a leading non-profit research institute focusing on interpretability and alignment of large models. The organization has developed or helped develop many powerful publicly available models, such as GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, BLOOM, VQGAN-CLIP, Stable Diffusion, and OpenFold. With over 25 million downloads, EleutherAI has enabled cutting-edge research on interpretability, ethics, training dynamics, and more.[3][4]

## Conjecture[edit]

Leahy co-founded Conjecture in 2022 with Sid Black and Gabriel Alfour, a startup that aims to scale AI alignment research.[2] Conjecture is located in London and is supported by notable investors, including Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick and John Collison, Arthur Breitman, Andrej Karpathy, and Sam Bankman-Fried.[4][2] The founders and early staff are mainly EleutherAI alumni and independent researchers, such as Adam Shimi.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ "Conjecture Ltd". Retrieved April 30, 2023.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Leahy, Connor. "We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup". Retrieved April 30, 2023 - via www.lesswrong.com.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "About". EleutherAI.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Smith, Tim. "'We are super, super fucked': Meet the man trying to stop an AI apocalypse". Retrieved April 30, 2023.

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