> EXO LABS Humanity is currently headed towards a world controlled by a cartel of a handful of companies that want to control the AI models that everyone will use. exo's mission is to democratize access to AI. > WHY IS THIS WORTH FIGHTING FOR? The greatest risk for humanity is not AI killing us as we are told. It's a society where culture and truth is dictated by an AI cartel. A world where a few companies control and gatekeep access to the most capable AI systems. "Not your weights, not your brain." - Andrej Karpathy AI will be integrated into everything people do and become a core part of our exocortex. We must have sovereignty over our own minds. > WHY DO WE THINK THIS IS A REAL THREAT? The AI cartel is spending trillions of dollars on AI clusters to scale training while pushing regulations like SB 1047 under the guise of AI safety to secure their advantage. The barriers to running frontier models are increasing. Models are getting bigger and with reasoning models like o1, more compute is being used at inference time. The Biden administration has taken active steps to control the entire supply chain for GPUs used for training frontier models. > WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Build open infrastructure to train frontier models and enable any human to run them anywhere. exo was started by a team of AI researchers and engineers from Oxford University singularly focused on this. > HOW CAN YOU HELP? If you are an exceptional individual who is excited about what we're working on email <jobs@exolabs.net> > STAY UP TO DATE