From 5ad176c60b657b32e00b84bd43c84d638145c7b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lianmin Zheng Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 20:39:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update about.md --- content/about.md | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/about.md b/content/about.md index b8a9ca19..335d2d1e 100644 --- a/content/about.md +++ b/content/about.md @@ -2,18 +2,54 @@ title: "About" --- -Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS Org) is an open research organization founded by students and faculty from UC Berkeley in collaboration with Stanford, UCSD, and CMU. +Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS Corp) is a non-profit focused on incubating open-source projects and research. +Our mission is to make large AI models accessible to everyone by co-developing open models, datasets, systems, and evaluation tools. We conduct cutting-edge machine learning research, develop open-source software, train large language models for broad accessibility, and build distributed systems to optimize their training and inference. -We aim to make large models accessible to everyone by co-development of open models, datasets, systems, and evaluation tools. Our work encompasses research in both machine learning and systems. We train large language models and make them widely available, while also developing distributed systems to accelerate their training and inference. +### Directors and officers +[Lianmin Zheng](https://lmzheng.net/), [Ying Sheng](https://sites.google.com/view/yingsheng/home), [Wei-Lin Chiang](https://infwinston.github.io/), [Zihao Ye](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~zhye/) -### Members -[Lianmin Zheng](https://lmzheng.net/), [Ying Sheng](https://sites.google.com/view/yingsheng/home), [Wei-Lin Chiang](https://infwinston.github.io/), [Lisa Dunlap](https://lisabdunlap.com), [Shiyi Cao](https://shiyicao.com/), [Tianle Li](https://codingwithtim.github.io/), [Christopher Chou](https://github.com/BabyChouSr), [Evan Frick](https://efrick2002.github.io/), [Isaac Ong](https://isaacong.me), [Dacheng Li](https://dachengli1.github.io/), [Zhuohan Li](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~zhuohan/), [Zi Lin](https://zi-lin.com/), [Zhanghao Wu](https://zhanghaowu.me/), [Shuo Yang](https://github.com/andy-yang-1), [Yineng Zhang](https://zhyncs.com/), [Siyuan Zhuang](https://github.com/suquark), [Yonghao Zhuang](https://github.com/ZYHowell) +### Project members +[Ke Bao](https://github.com/ispobock), +[Shiyi Cao](https://shiyicao.com/), +[Christopher Chou](https://github.com/BabyChouSr), +[Lisa Dunlap](https://lisabdunlap.com), +[Evan Frick](https://efrick2002.github.io/), +[Dacheng Li](https://dachengli1.github.io/), +[Tianle Li](https://codingwithtim.github.io/), +[Zhuohan Li](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~zhuohan/), +[Zi Lin](https://zi-lin.com/), +[Isaac Ong](https://isaacong.me), +[Zhanghao Wu](https://zhanghaowu.me/), +[Shuo Yang](https://github.com/andy-yang-1), +[Yineng Zhang](https://zhyncs.com/), +[Chenyang Zhao](https://zhaochenyang20.github.io/Chayenne/), +[Siyuan Zhuang](https://github.com/suquark), +[Yonghao Zhuang](https://github.com/ZYHowell) #### Advisors -[Joseph E. Gonzalez](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jegonzal/), [Ion Stoica](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~istoica/), [Eric P. Xing](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/), [Hao Zhang](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hao/), [Trevor Darrell](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/) +[Joseph E. Gonzalez](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jegonzal/), [Ion Stoica](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~istoica/), [Eric P. Xing](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/), [Hao Zhang](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hao/) -#### Institutions -UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSD, CMU, MBZUAI +## Sponsors and Supporters +LMSYS is supported by donations from the following institutions: + +[NVIDIA](https://www.nvidia.com/), [a16z](https://a16z.com/), [Hyperbolic](https://hyperbolic.xyz), [RunPod](https://www.runpod.io/), [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/), [MBZUAI](https://mbzuai.ac.ae/), [Together](https://www.together.ai/), [Anyscale](https://www.anyscale.com/), [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) + +We also thank the following companies which provide API credits to serve their models on Chatbot Arena (graduated): +[Alibaba](https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/solutions/generative-ai/qwen), [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/api), [Cohere](https://cohere.com/), [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/), [Google](https://ai.google.dev/), [Mistral](https://mistral.ai/), [OpenAI](https://www.openai.com/), [Reka](https://www.reka.ai/), [Zhipu AI](https://open.bigmodel.cn/), [01ai](https://www.01.ai/) + +We welcome diverse forms of donations and sponsorships, including but not limited to cash, compute devices (e.g., GPUs) and cloud credits. Please contact us at [lmsys.org@gmail.com](mailto:lmsysorg@gmail.com). + +### History +LMSYS originated from a multi-university collaboration involving UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSD, CMU, and MBZUAI in 2023. +It was established as a non-profit corporation in September 2024 to incubate early-stage open-source and research projects. +It became well-known for its impactful flagship projects, including: + +- [Chatbot Arena (graduated)](https://lmarena.ai/) +- [SGLang](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/tree/main) +- [FastChat](https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/tree/main) +- [Vicuna LLM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicuna_LLM) + +These projects feature open models with millions of downloads, crowdsourced platforms with millions of users, and efficient systems that are orders of magnitude faster. ### Contact us - Email us at [lmsys.org@gmail.com](mailto:lmsysorg@gmail.com).