Organization

Sponsors #

BigCode is led by ServiceNow Research and HuggingFace. Both organizations commit research and engineering time to ensure that the collaboration runs smoothly and makes progress towards the pre-set goals. ServiceNow Research also makes their compute cluster available for large-scale training.

Members #

We will shortly provide more details on the governance structure of the project. For now, the organization is led by core members of ServiceNow and HuggingFace while we are onboarding contributors. Core members dedicate a significant portion of their working time to the BigCode project whereas contributors advise on specific aspects of the project or take on smaller tasks.

Operations #

We run the BigCode project through the following tools and platforms:

• We actively manage the project through a Github project board
• We use Slack for all internal communication (apply here to join!)
• We train models with a clone of Megatron-LM
• We host all code repositories on Github
• We host all model weights and datasets on HuggingFace