Is there a truly open source effort in the LLM space? Like a collaborative, crowd-sourced effort (possibly with academic institutions playing a major role) that relies on creative commons licensed or otherwise open data and produces a public good as final outcome?

There is this ridiculous idea of AI moats and other machinations for the next big VC thing (god bless them, people have spend their energy on worse pursuits) but in a fundamental sense there is a public good type infrastructure crying out to be developed for each major linguistic domain.

Maybe such an effort would not be cutting edge enough to power the next corporate chatbot that will eliminate 99% of all jobs, but it would be a significant step up in our ability to process text.