Meet the team developing an open source ChatGPT alternative | TechCrunch, March 14, 2023

"...a new, loosely-affiliated group of researchers calling themselves Together aim to ... be the first to open source a ChatGPT-like system. Together has already made progress. Last week, it releasing trained models any developer can use to create an AI-powered chatbot. “Together is building an accessible platform for open foundation models,” Vipul Ved Prakash, the co-founder of Together, told TechCrunch in an email interview. “We think of what we are building as part of AI’s ‘Linux moment.’ We want to enable researchers, developers and companies to use and improve open source AI models with a platform that brings together data, models and computation.” Prakash previously co-founded Cloudmark, a cybersecurity startup that Proofpoint purchased for $110 million in 2017. After Apple acquired Prakash’s next venture, social media search and analytics platform Topsy, in 2013, he stayed on as a senior director at Apple for five years before leaving to start Together...."