EleutherAI is a non-profit open-source AI research institute that co-founded as a grassroots collective and formally incorporated as the EleutherAI Institute, a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization, in 2023. EleutherAI's Twitter Score is 32 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #30,586 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
EleutherAI was co-founded by Connor Leahy, Leo Gao, and Sid Black, and its current Executive Director is Stella Biderman. The institute's research output spans large language models, interpretability, alignment, and AI ethics, with openly maintained projects including GPT-NeoX, Pythia, the LM Evaluation Harness, and sparse-autoencoder tooling for mechanistic interpretability.
EleutherAI compiled The Pile, an 825 GiB dataset of human-authored text designed for large-scale language model training, and contributed to the initial development of Stable Diffusion alongside other collaborators. Compute resources have been supplied by CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure provider focused on AI workloads. EleutherAI has received backing from Hugging Face, Stability AI, Lambda Labs, Canva, and Nat Friedman. EleutherAI has published 947 posts and has been mentioned by 18 accounts, totaling 26 mentions.
Who follows EleutherAI on X?
The accounts that follow EleutherAI include 155 founders, 39 angel investors, 31 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Marc Andreessen, Loomdart, Tarun Chitra, Sriram Krishnan, Jake Brukhman and Matthew Graham.