Award

FZJ-2023-04955

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png “Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023” in the category “Science and Innovation Management”

Jitsev, J.FZJ*
Falling Walls Foundation

Abstract: This award underlines LAION’s unique commitment to democratizing AI research, open science, and open source development. Their goal is to create an inclusive AI ecosystem to study foundation models on various scales from which everyone can benefit. Their commitment is demonstrated not only in their active work for the public, but also in their promotion of international research collaborations. JSC’s collaboration with Huggingface, the University of Washington, and Stability AI was a cornerstone for this breakthrough. JUWELS Booster and other powerful supercomputers like Summit and Frontier helped position machine learning and AI research as a tool for societal progress.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)

Research Program(s):

1. 5112 - Cross-Domain Algorithms, Tools, Methods Labs (ATMLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511) (POF4-511)

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