README.md

# 🌟 JoeyLLM — formerly Southern Cross AI 🌟

🙋‍♀️ **Welcome to JoeyLLM.** We’re building Australia’s sovereign open-source LLM through collaboration across academia, government, industry, and the open-source community.

**🌐 Current site:** https://southerncross.ai  
**🌐 New site:** https://joeyllm.ai _(coming soon)_

## 🚀 Mission
Advance open-source large language models for Australia and enable practical AI applications through shared research and engineering.

## 🌈 Get Involved
- **Contribute:** Join discussions and pick up issues.
- **Engage:** Participate on Discord and community calls.
- **Collaborate:** Partner with us on data, training, and evaluation.

## 🧠 Models
- **Baby Joey** — ~1B parameters  
- **Little Joey** — ~7B parameters  
- **Joey** — size TBA

## 📚 Resources
- Org page: https://huggingface.co/JoeyLLM  
- Updates and announcements: https://southerncross.ai  
- Docs and guides will move to **joeyllm.ai** when live.

## 🛣️ Roadmap
- **Phase 1:** Data curation and initial baselines  
- **Phase 2:** Training, evals, and community feedback  
- **Phase 3:** Public releases and continuous improvement

## 🌏 Data
We focus on diverse Australian text sources to ensure coverage of regional language, domains, and use cases.

## 📢 Community
- **Discord:** https://discord.gg/hcAUDRMNry  
- **Meetup:** https://www.meetup.com/nlp-aiwizardsofoz/  
- **Facebook:** https://www.facebook.com/ _(project page if applicable)_

## 📧 Contact
**matthew.altenburg@anu.edu.au**