The knowledge that makes Leela Zero a strong player is contained in a neural network, which is trained based on the results of previous games that the program played.

Members of the community provide computing resources by running the client, which generates self-play games and submits them to the server.

[7] Leela Zero finished third at the BerryGenomics Cup World AI Go Tournament in Fuzhou, Fujian, China on 28 April 2018.

AlphaZero's use of Google TPUs was replaced by a crowd-sourcing infrastructure and the ability to use graphics card GPUs via the OpenCL library.

[10] The distributed training server was shut down on 2021-02-15, marking the end of Leela Zero project.