Hello everyone,

After some time away I have come to the realization that I have been neglecting a few personal projects and responsibilities by prioritizing staying in the know (over building / working towards other goals I set out to accomplish before 2024).

That being said, I decided it would be in my best interest to take a brief hiatus throughout the remainder of the year to tackle these tasks before they get out of hand (and no longer become a reality). I will be sharing notes here and there, but at much less frequency due to the work I’ll be doing.

Some of these projects are resources for this community, others are totally different obligations I need to attend to.

You will be informed of the important updates, but I will be working mostly in the shadows - waiting and watching for the right moments to emerge.

On my long list of tasks is still getting our own fosai model on HuggingFace, which was going well until I ran out of funds. As much as I’d love to, it is no longer sustainable for me to keep paying out-of-pocket for fosai fine-tuning expenses… lol.

I had a Mistral-7B fine-tune that almost completed its training - but failed at the final 4%. I had the adapter and weights semi-published, but they were unusable from whatever caused that hiccup. That’s okay though, I will be applying for grants to help get this training workflow back off the ground (this time, with those pesky GPU costs covered).

If all else fails, I will turn to other methods.

I want you to know that throughout this hiatus, I am leaving the community to you guys. I want to let [email protected] organically grow (or slow) without my intervention. At the end of the day, I probably shouldn’t be the only one sharing content here. I’m curious to see who sticks around and who does (or doesn’t) post in my absence.

Shoutout everyone who has been sharing content, it does not go unnoticed. At least by me.

Whether content creator or casual lurker - you should know the activity of this community is not something I put a ton of expectations on so don’t pressure yourself to try and keep this community ‘alive’ with content or comments if it doesn’t feel natural or genuine. This community is not going anywhere, I’m just taking a break. We have already succeeded at the original fosai goal I set out to achieve. Now we must spend time building and developing our futures - collectively, and individually.

If you’ve been here since the beginning - thank you for reading and sticking around, but perhaps this is a good time for you to take a break from the AI news cycle too. This applies to everyone really, but it especially applies to all of you here. There was much innovation throughout the year and much more yet to come. If your FOMO is getting the best of you, consider subscribing to the YouTube content creators I’ve listed in this README. Otherwise, take a break, play some games, touch some grass or do something for yourself (and not for the sake of you thinking it needs to get done).

We’ll be here for all of the future’s wildest creations in this space, but taking a moment to develop yourself, be with family, (or spend time on one of your projects) is something you should consider doing if you have the ability to do so - no matter the pace of innovation. This is something I have forgotten, and something I will be reminding myself these coming weeks.

The future is now. The future is bright. The future is H.

Blaed