Filed under Dev Tool · 2022
Galactica
2022 - 2022, 1 year old
Meta's large language model for science, trained on 48 million papers, textbooks, and encyclopedias that could summarize research, generate equations, and annotate molecules.
Meta released the public demo on November 15, 2022 and pulled it three days later after scientists flooded social media with examples of confident, citation-laden hallucinations including fake papers about bears in space and invented chemical compounds. Critics warned the tool could pollute scientific literature with plausible-sounding misinformation. Yann LeCun later argued it was killed by the Twitter mob just two weeks before ChatGPT normalized the same hallucination behavior.
- Founded
- 2022-11
- Shut down
- 2022-11-17
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 1
- Founders
- Meta AI