Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launched a new online forum called Harmonious for discussing research papers and advances related to artificial intelligence, saying the aim was to cut through the glut of chatter on various platforms.
In a post on the AI2 Incubator blog Insights, technical director Vu Ha wrote Thursday about how daunting it can be for AI builders — including engineers, scientists and tinkerers — to keep up with everything on various Discord channels, X and Reddit threads, newsletters, and blog posts.
“We believe there should be a place where AI builders can gain crucial insights into building real-world AI applications,” Ha said. “This place should be focused on builders, created by builders, and maintain an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio.”
Right now, the forum is sharing weekly roundups of interesting AI research papers. Harmonious highlights one paper with an in-depth review as the week’s “spotlight paper.” The roundups also include a few noteworthy papers with shorter commentaries, Ha said.
Harmonious doesn’t require any sign-up, and those who do join can contribute reviews, guides, learned lessons, commentaries, and more. Initial posts will focus on topics related to building real-world LLM-powered applications, including retrieval augmented generation, and Ha said the site is open to other topics such as tools, libraries, frameworks, techniques, guides and more.
Moderation will be done by AI2 Incubator.
AI2 Incubator spun off in 2022 from its original home, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The firm runs an incubator and a venture fund that raised $30 million in fresh capital last year.
Earlier this month, AI2 Incubator secured $200 million in computing power from unnamed cloud providers and data centers. Any company that partners with the organization “in any way, shape, or form” can get access to up to $1 million in AI compute.
