Eric Hartford
Founder of Quixi.AI and creator of the Dolphin and Samantha open models; formerly at Microsoft and AWS
- Founder, Quixi.AI1
Eric Hartford is the founder of Quixi.AI, which its site describes as an independent AI lab building a private-AI stack, and the site says Hartford created the Dolphin and Samantha open models. Dolphin's Hugging Face organization lists Hartford as a team member and publishes Dolphin fine-tunes of open-weight base models, such as Dolphin X1 Trinity Nano, built on Arcee AI's Trinity Nano and released under the Apache 2.0 license. Quixi.AI's projects also include SlimServe, an inference engine for a curated set of open models. The site says Hartford previously worked at Microsoft, AWS and eBay.123
Work
Dolphin (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
Hartford's site says Hartford created the Dolphin open models, and the Dolphin organization on Hugging Face lists Hartford as a team member. Its releases include Dolphin X1 Trinity Nano, a fine-tune of Arcee AI's Trinity Nano whose model card gives the Apache 2.0 license.123
Earlier roles
- Former employee; the role is not stated, Microsoft1
- Former employee; the role is not stated, Amazon Web Services (AWS)1
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