Laion

About Laion

Laion: The Future of Open-Source AI Research

LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free, open-source AI research, datasets, models, and tools. By fostering a collaborative environment, LAION aims to promote public education and more environmentally-friendly use of resources through the reuse of existing datasets and models.

A CERN for Open Source Large-Scale AI Research

With a mission to revolutionize the AI landscape, LAION seeks to emulate the collaborative spirit of CERN in open-source AI research. By engaging the community, LAION encourages participation in open-source AI projects, discussions, and development.

Comprehensive Datasets for AI Researchers

LAION offers an extensive range of datasets, including:

• LAION-400M: An accessible 400M image-text-pair dataset
• LAION5B: A 5.85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pair dataset
• Laion-coco: 600M captions generated using BLIP
• Laion translated: 3B translated samples from Laion5B
• LAION5B High-Res: High-resolution images from LAION5B
• LAION Aesthetics: Aesthetically pleasing images from LAION5B
• LAION-3D: Large-scale dataset of 3D models and descriptor pairs
• Audio Dataset: Raw and processed audio datasets for training CLAP and other models
• Watermark Detection: Datasets for training watermark classifiers

Innovative AI Models and Implementations

LAION provides access to numerous open-source AI models:

• Openclip: Open-source implementation of OpenAI's CLIP
• DALLE-2 Prior/Decoder: DALL-E 2 implementation in Pytorch
• ClipCap: Generate text from embedding using pretrained encoder and language models
• CLAP: Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining model
• Video CLIP: Contrastive language pretraining model for videos
• Multilingual-CLIP: CLIP text encoders for multiple languages
• NSFW Detection: NSFW content detection within images using CLIP
• Electric Sheep: Train contrastive and generative models on all modalities

Powerful AI Tools for Researchers

LAION offers a variety of tools to support AI research and development:

• img2dataset: Convert large sets of image URLs into image datasets
• Clip Retrieval: Compute clip embeddings and build clip retrieval systems
• Crawlingathome-gpu-hcloud: GPU-controlled Hetzner Cloud workers for the Crawling@Home project
• Clip Benchmark: Evaluate CLIP-like models on various tasks and datasets

Summary

LAION is revolutionizing the AI research landscape by offering a comprehensive platform for open-source AI research, datasets, models, and tools. As a non-profit organization, LAION empowers researchers, developers, and educators to collaborate, innovate, and contribute to the ever-growing field of artificial intelligence. Explore LAION's extensive resources and join the movement to shape the future of AI research.