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AI Hub in Generative Models

This project establishes a national hub to advance and deploy large-scale generative AI models across text, image, and video modalities.

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Funder: EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

Lead partner: UCL

Partner: Evolution AI, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development Ltd, Huawei

Lead academic: Prof David Barber

Co-investigators: Mr Chris Langridge, Prof Arthur Gretton, Prof Miguel Rodrigues, Prof Jack Stilgoe

Project amount: £11,998,880

Research themes: AI and Intelligent Systems

Project period: 1 February 2024 – 31 January 2029

Project description: The Generative Models Hub will research and facilitate deployment of large-scale generative models of different modalities, including text, images and video.

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