Open-source AI is in jeopardy.
At fal, we believe in the power of open-source and collaboration to drive progress in tech. Most of the innovation in this wave of AI is thanks to open-source projects. You don't have to go too far to see this. Just look at Meta's Llama, Mistral AI, Stability AI's Stable Diffusion, LangChain or Georgi Gerganov's GGML. We owe this wave to these projects.
Today, we are announcing fal Research Grants which provides free compute resources to researchers and developers working on cutting-edge open source initiatives. Learn more here: https://fal.ai/grants
Here at fal, we have historically been busy making models run really really fast. But in the last 6 months that we spent on hacking on open-source models, we realized something important: With a humble amount of compute, you can build amazing models. And this is why we decided to launch this program to support researchers building open-source models. As first recipients of the fal Research Grant, we have already given tens of thousands of hours worth of H100 compute to prominent open source models such as moondream2 and birefnet.
We are super excited to see all the great projects that will come out of this. Send a DM or email [email protected] to apply.