With this platform (and Gym) it seems like a large part of their strategy for "democratizing AI" is to grow the amateur research community. By making it easier

With this platform (and Gym) it seems like a large part of their strategy for "democratizing AI" is to grow the amateur research community. By making it easier for an individual to play around and conduct experiments, they are hoping enable progress to emerge from anywhere instead of just from wealthy companies and elite universities. It is also a great way to be able to track and organize what is being created rather than having to sort through amateur projects scattered across the web or research publications that often lack accompanying code. Edit: Some key ways they're making it easier for amateurs: * Starting point for problems to solve * Way to get noticed (instead of needing a university/company brand) * Technological infrastructure for building and testing. The diversity of tools they brought together to build this platform is very impressive.