Longer description of your proposed project

I'd like to resurrect https://distill.pub/, but with AI tools to massively speed up the bottlenecks involved. One of the main reasons they went on hiatus is the sheer amount of time it took them per piece https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/.

Understanding things would get a massive boost with better visuals across the board and folks would be open to create a lot more if it was much faster/easier to do so. I believe this generalizes across all domains.

Creating such visually rich articles can be accelerated by building AI tools such as:

• code completion foundation model (FM) for generating Math animations (using the Manim library created by 3Blue1Brown).

• image generation multi-modal FM for going from sketches to diagrams. editing of generated diagrams with user-created masks and text prompts.

Describe why you think you're qualified to work on this

I work in AI research. Apart from having the technical skills to build this, I find myself in desperate need of these tools myself. I find that the best way to convey intuition for what I'm working on to all kinds of people from different backgrounds is to create simple visuals.

Other ways I can learn about you

• X profile: https://twitter.com/pravsels

• Github project link: https://github.com/pravsels/DistilLM

How much money do you need?

I'm assuming 10,000 - 20,000 should be a good seed amount.

Estimate your probability of succeeding if you get the amount of money you asked for

I'm going for a two-pronged approach. Develop an open-source version of the tools that can be run locally for the tech savvy. Since I'd use this myself, very high probability of me continuing to work on this.

Once the results are useful enough, they will then form the backbone for a resurrected distill-like platform.