Summer of Open AI Research

Work on an open science AI research project during the month of August 2025. In this fully online event, we invite people with little research experience to contribute to open science under the mentorship of experienced researchers. Participants get credited for their work.

Where: the EleutherAI Discord

When: August 4 to August 29 with one week of prep work before

Who should apply?

  • Programmers with industry experience interested in transitioning to AI research
  • Master's/PhD students in CS, Math, Physics, or related fields
  • Self-taught researchers looking for structured mentorship
  • Anyone with technical skills wanting to contribute to open science

Program timeline

  • July 7: Applications open
  • July 21: Application deadline
  • July 21 to July 28: Application review
  • July 28: Project Assignment
  • July 28 to August 3: Burn-in period. Do prep work identified by mentors to be ready for the main event
  • August 4 to August 29: Main event
  • August 16: Short talks
  • August 30: Closing event and short talks

How to apply

  1. Read the project proposals below
  2. Fill the application form
  3. Based on your skills and project preferences, you get matched to a project if possible

Projects

#1 Improving automated interpretability techniques
Gonçalo Paulo | EleutherAI
#2 Maya
Nahid Alam | Cohere Labs/Cisko Meraki
#3 Effect of Tokenizer Features on Downstream Model Performance
Catherine Arnett | EleutherAI
#4 MIDI-RWKV
Christian Zhou-Zheng | Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser University
#5 Literature Knowledge Extraction Tool
Martin Leitgab
#6 Prompt Optimisation for Hallucination Reduction
Archana Vaidheeswaran | Apart Research
#7 Simulating Student Misconceptions with LLMs
Qiyao Wei | University of Cambridge
#8 Data attribution in backdoored models
Gonçalo Paulo | EleutherAI
#9 AI Ecosystem Map
Seon Gunness
#10 Math for ML Skill Tree
@genetyx8
#11 Expanding the ShareLM Plugin
Shachar Don-Yeyiha | Hebrew University

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