Connor Leahy
Co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile and the GPT-NeoX-20B paper
Connor Leahy co-founded EleutherAI in 2020 with Sid Black and, in March 2022, co-founded Conjecture, a company working on AI safety and controllable AI systems, according to Conjecture's own history page. Leahy is a co-author of The Pile, EleutherAI's 825 GiB English text corpus for training language models, and of the GPT-NeoX-20B paper, where Leahy is credited on the section about alignment implications. Leahy is also listed among the authors in the citation entry for the GPT-NeoX training library.1234
Work
The PilePublished research
Listed as an author of The Pile paper (2020), which introduced an 825 GiB English text corpus built from 22 subsets for training large language models.2
GPT-NeoX and GPT-NeoX-20BOpen-source code
Co-author of the GPT-NeoX-20B paper, whose individual-contributions appendix credits Leahy with work on the alignment-implications section, and listed among the authors in the GPT-NeoX repository's citation entry for the Apache-2.0 training library.34
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Co-founder (2020), EleutherAI1
- Co-founder (founded March 2022), Conjecture1
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