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# Terminus Research Group

**Founded:** May 2023

**Mission:** Dedicated to advancing the field of machine learning through collaborative research, open-source contributions, and community education.

**Key Areas of Focus:**
- Education and knowledge sharing in machine learning
- Collecting and publishing free-to-use datasets
- Managing a volunteer-based ML cluster for image captioning
- Development and publication of experimental and reproducible research

**Current Projects:**
- Image diffusion models
- Open-source machine learning tools

**Contact Information:**
- **Discord:** https://discord.gg/cSmvcU9Me9

**Leadership:** 
- **Founder:** @pseudoterminalx

**How to Contribute:**

By joining the linked Discord server, you will be granted a temporary membership that can be approved by the server members. Once approved, you can engage in:

- Volunteer Opportunities: Captioning datasets, training and testing models
- Research Collaboration: Developing adapters and new model architectures
- Funding and Donations: Running fundraisers, promoting the group's activities, handling social media presence

**Achievements:**
- Successfully trained and deployed new machine learning models
- Built a collaborative community of machine learning enthusiasts and experts
- Provided source code and tools for the broader community to reproduce efforts