| # 🌟 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** | |