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EleutherAI/pythia

Hub for EleutherAI's work on interpretability and learning dynamics

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3.0k stars225 forksLast push Nov 15, 2025 Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0

Decision brief

Pythia is a hub maintained by EleutherAI focused on research notebooks addressing interpretability and learning dynamics.

Good fit when

When you are specifically interested in understanding the internal workings and behavior of AI models, as Pythia is centered around interpretability and learning dynamics.
If your work involves exploring how machine learning models learn from data and how to make these processes more transparent.

Avoid when

Avoid using Pythia if you need specific applications or tools for immediate practical AI model deployment, as it primarily focuses on research and not direct application.
If interpretability is not a prime focus of your project and the primary goal is building functional machine learning models without delving into theoretical aspects.

Pricing:: freemium - All code in the GitHub repo, Pythia models, and other artifacts are available under an open-source Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use with attribution.

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Maintenance and security

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Maintenance: Slowing (330d since push); As of Oct 12, 2026
Provenance: Not a fork · Organization account; As of Oct 12, 2026
Security (OSV): 2 low (2 low); As of Jul 11, 2026

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Install

git clone https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia

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Evidence and technical details

Sourced facts, taxonomy, compatibility claims, README excerpt, and machine-readable endpoints.

Overview

The repository contains Jupyter Notebook files that focus on the research and development related to interpretability and learning dynamics. It doesn't specify any particular tool or application but is centered around understanding AI models.

Capability facts

Languages: jupyter notebook
Source: github.language · Oct 12, 2026

README

License The following license applies to all code in this GitHub repo, as well as the Pythia models and any other copyrightable artifacts contained in this repository.

For agents

This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.

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