Looking for people interested in helping build a small AI project from scratch
Hey everyone,
I'm working on a project called KitAI. The goal is to build an AI assistant completely from scratch instead of fine-tuning an existing model.
Before anything else: this is not a job posting, and I'm not hiring. This is just a personal project I'm building for fun, learning, and experimentation. I'm looking for people who enjoy AI and might want to share ideas, advice, or contribute because they find the project interesting.
I'm not trying to compete with Claude or GPT overnight. I know that's unrealistic for a small project. My plan is to start tiny, learn as I go, and gradually improve it over time.
Right now I'm looking for people interested in:
- Machine learning
- Transformers and LLMs
- Training small models
- Datasets and tokenizers
- Python and PyTorch
- AI infrastructure
Even if you're a beginner, I'd love to hear your ideas or suggestions.
A few things about the project:
- The name is KitAI (inspired by cats 🐱)
- The first version will be a very small model
- The goal is to learn and build something cool from the ground up
- I'm interested in experimenting with custom training, tokenizers, memory systems, and other AI components
If you'd like to discuss ideas, contribute, share resources, or just follow the project's progress, feel free to comment or send me a message.
Thanks for reading!