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Open AI, and the animals it is for.

Zoo Labs Foundation is a non-profit research organisation. We publish open AI models and conservation research, and we build the things that teach with them. All of it is public — the weights, the papers, the code and the arguments.

Elephant
86
Papers published
149
Improvement proposals
Everything
Open source
2021
Founded

What we do

Open models

The Zen family is developed in the open and published with its weights, so anyone can run, inspect and build on it without asking us.

Weights on Hugging Face

Conservation research

Peer-style papers on wildlife population monitoring, species classification, habitat modelling and citizen science — written to be used, not cited.

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Teaching with Blue

Blue is a beluga whale who answers questions about the ocean for children, students and researchers, and says plainly when something is not known.

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Governed in public

Changes to what we build are proposed, argued and recorded as Zoo Improvement Proposals. Anyone can read the reasoning; anyone can write one.

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Recent research

All 86 papers

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Zoo Labs Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity, so gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows. Donations fund the research and the people doing it. We publish what we spend.

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