Galactica Demo

Galactica Demo was a public web interface released by Meta AI in November 2022 to showcase their Galactica large language model. Trained on 48 million scientific papers, textbooks, and other academic sources, the model was designed to assist scientists by generating scientific text, solving math problems, and summarizing academic literature. The demo allowed users to input prompts and generate scientific papers, equations, and code. However, it was taken down after only 3 days due to concerns about the model producing inaccurate or biased content.

Despite its potential to accelerate scientific research and writing by quickly synthesizing large amounts of information, Galactica faced criticism for its risk of generating plausible-sounding but incorrect or biased content. The model's inability to fact-check or verify its own outputs was a significant concern, leading to its removal from public access. Meta AI continues to encourage feedback from the research community to improve the model and address its limitations, even though the public demo is no longer available.