More reach for good work
Partner projects may be highlighted on the Bench Labs website, blog, or community spaces, helping more people discover what you are making.
Open collaboration
Partnerships
We collaborate closely with teams that share our open philosophy of creating accessible, permissively licensed, and highly compact generative models. Partnerships are a way to bring a useful idea, a different perspective, or a shared project into a supportive community and build it together.
Current partners
Teams we build with
FWKV
Partnered: 25/7/2026Optimized recurrent networks and transformer backbones.
What we bring together
A partnership that grows with the work
Practical help from people
Depending on the project, community members may contribute code, datasets, testing, feedback, or compute when they have the time and capacity.
Ideas become shared projects
Bench Labs is largely sustained by its partners. Someone brings an idea, and we explore the most useful version of it together without making the process heavier than it needs to be.
A compact, active community
We are still growing, but our community is active for its size. That density makes it easier to find thoughtful collaborators and keep momentum around interesting work.
The important part
Partnership is not a merger
You keep your own identity, projects, repositories, and direction. Collaboration is independent by default: you decide what you share, what you build, and how closely you want to work with others.
As Bench Labs grows, we hope to create and strengthen more ways for partners to benefit from the network. Those possibilities should come from the work and from the people involved, not from pressure to commit to more than you want.
How we work together
Keep it useful, peaceful, and sustainable
No burnout: no pressure, stress, or hidden extra work. Effortless is efficient.
Be prepared: search and check existing resources before flooding the community with questions.
Keep it peaceful: communicate with patience, respect, and good faith.
Protect the space: zero misinformation, NSFW content, hate, hostility, greed, drama, spam, or related behavior.
Have something worth building?
Start with a conversation. Tell us what you are working on, what kind of collaboration would help, and what boundaries you want to keep.