The Pile (pipeline)

license

MIT(OSI)

source

public(EleutherAI/the-pile)

core features withheld

no

Fully OSI-licensed (MIT), full source public.

• https://github.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/blob/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13

  MIT License text

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

  LICENSE text begins "MIT License" and "Copyright (c) 2020 EleutherAI" and grants "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/master/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  README gives install and replication steps from the repo: "pip install -e ." then "python the_pile/pile.py --interleave_output 30 --using pile_reprod"; it states "This repository is for replicating or making variants of the Pile." Searched the body for paid tier, enterprise, license key and hosted-only: none.

GitHub stars are the only usage signal published for this repository, and a star is not a use. Development has stopped, but it is the canonical construction pipeline behind GPT-Neo, GPT-J and Pythia, so its importance runs well ahead of that count.

• https://api.github.com/repos/EleutherAI/the-pile recorded 2026-08-13

  stargazers_count = 1674 for EleutherAI/the-pile

Construction pipeline for one corpus, the Pile, rather than a general-purpose curation toolkit.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/master/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  README is replication code for the Pile: "This repository is for replicating or making variants of the Pile." with a component table ending "Total" at "1254.20 GiB", and the line "IF YOU ARE HERE TO USE THE PILE DATASET, THIS REPO IS PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR."