Open AI research

Marin

An open research project sharing model weights, training code, data sources and the results of successful and unsuccessful experiments.

Timeline & sources Website

At a glance

Origins: 2024 · public launch May 2025
Category: Open AI research · collaborative model development

Founders in the archive

David Hall

Percy Liang

Support

Research and philanthropic support

Supporters named by the project include Google TPU Research Cloud, the Huang Foundation, Siegel Family Foundation, Fulcrum Science and Schmidt Sciences. Compute and philanthropic support are not company equity rounds.

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Origins & connections

Created by David Hall and Percy Liang at Stanford in 2024. The open lab launched publicly in May 2025. It is now primarily developed by Open Athena with community contributors.

On the timeline

2025-05-19Marin opens its model-building laboratory

Sources 2

Project origins and support
Open lab announcement