🌟 JoeyLLM — formerly Southern Cross AI 🌟

🙋‍♀️ Welcome to JoeyLLM. We’re building Australia’s sovereign open-source LLM through collaboration across academia, government, industry, and the open-source community.

🌐 Current site: https://southerncross.ai
🌐 New site: https://joeyllm.ai (coming soon)

🚀 Mission

Advance open-source large language models for Australia and enable practical AI applications through shared research and engineering.

🌈 Get Involved

• Contribute: Join discussions and pick up issues.
• Engage: Participate on Discord and community calls.
• Collaborate: Partner with us on data, training, and evaluation.

🧠 Models

• Baby Joey — ~1B parameters
• Little Joey — ~7B parameters
• Joey — size TBA

📚 Resources

• Org page: https://huggingface.co/JoeyLLM
• Updates and announcements: https://southerncross.ai
• Docs and guides will move to joeyllm.ai when live.

🛣️ Roadmap

• Phase 1: Data curation and initial baselines
• Phase 2: Training, evals, and community feedback
• Phase 3: Public releases and continuous improvement

🌏 Data

We focus on diverse Australian text sources to ensure coverage of regional language, domains, and use cases.

📢 Community

• Discord: https://discord.gg/hcAUDRMNry
• Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/nlp-aiwizardsofoz/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ (project page if applicable)

📧 Contact

[email protected]