WhatIf Grant

$1,000 to $100,000 GPU Credits for Open Source Anime AI

No strings attached. Projects must be open source with Apache 2.0 / MIT license or alike.

About the Founder

My name is JiAo, the founder who made WhatIf, the best community to create your own anime visual stories. I am:

• Big anime / games fan
• Starcraft masters' league zerg & protoss player
• Software engineer @Facebook Video Creator and AI Infra
• Open source ML contributor of Ray @Anyscale (link)
• Nvidia GTC speaker on LLM (blog post)

As an active contributor to open source ML myself, thanks to the openness of the AI community and cloud providers that sponsored us (all major ones you can think of), we have resources to give back to the community and do something fun, maybe some of you would be working with us in the future :)

Key Areas

• Anime/Games dataset collection and curation
• LLM model fine tuning & inference optimization
• Image generation model fine tuning & inference optimization
• Tooling and frameworks supporting areas above, such as animation, consistent OC character, captioning, multi-character, composition, etc.

Contact

Please email me directly at jd at nuvalab.ai for your project ideas anytime! My twitter / x

Batch #1

Claimed by a well-known anime model research lab with loads of H100s. Work in progress :)

Launched in Oct 2024 by JiAo, founder of Nuva Lab, Inc.