🌟 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)