At the risk of stating the obvious, AI-powered chatbots are hot right now. The tools, which can write essays, emails and more given a few text-based instructions, have captured the attention of tech hobbyists and enterprises alike. OpenAI's ChatGPT, arguably the progenitor, has an estimated more than 100 million users. Via an API, brands including Instacart, Quizlet and Snap have begun building it into their respective platforms, boosting the usage numbers further. But to the chagrin of some within the developer community, the organizations building these chatbots remain part of a well-financed, well-resourced and exclusive club.

Together is creating the first distributed cloud designed specifically for handling huge foundation models. The company offers an intuitive platform combining data, models, and computing to help AI researchers, developers, and businesses better harness and advance AI. Together team believes that open-source models for philanthropies have the potential to be more democratic, open, strong, and adaptive. They recently released OpenChatKit 0.15 under the Apache-2.0 The robust, open-source foundation offered by OpenChatKit enables the development of domain-specific and general-purpose chatbots.