2024-11-26 21:21:00
The Abu Dhabi Open Source AI Summit, organized by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global center for applied scientific research, kicked off with critical conversations that will shape the global AI agenda. Regis Saadiyat Island, today and tomorrow, attended by more than 300 people, converges with the growing international focus on the pull and push between open and closed source AI.
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Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute Inaugurates Open-Source AI Summit with Critical Discussions on the Future of AI (Photo: AETOSWire)
“There are two critical choices when referring to AI,” said His Excellency Faisal Al Bannai, secretary-general of the Advanced Technology Research Council and advisor to the president of the UAE. “You can use a closed source AI model that is owned by a company. They control you, including the data you provide. Innovation begins and ends with them.”
“Alternatively, you can use an open source model that grows within the community. We innovate together, and anyone, anywhere can access and develop it. If AI is going to be part of the fabric of our society – and it will be – countries, companies and individuals need to decide who controls it. The opening of the Falcon AI models was TII’s contribution to the world.”
Dr. Najwa Aaraj, Executive Director of TII, who opened the summit, said: “The Open Source AI Summit in Abu Dhabi is a watershed moment for the global discourse on AI. Falcon, like other open source models, unites scientists, developers and innovators to accelerate technological advances as a catalyst for global change. We look forward to seeing the continued impact he will have, especially as we continue our work with the Falcon Foundation.”
The summit agenda continued with discussions from renowned speakers, including Dr. Belgacem Haba, Vice President of Adeia Corporation in the US, who spoke about the challenges that AI has created in the semiconductor manufacturing sector.
Philip Torr, professor and chief scientific advisor at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, spoke about who should own AI, addressing the potential downsides as well as regulation, and arguing that in the long term, the benefits of AI open source outweigh the risks.
Dr. Hakim Hacid, Principal Researcher at TII’s AI Research Center, said: “We believe open source AI is the way forward, but it is far from simple – there are challenges and questions around control, policy, power of computing and hardware that we need to address. That’s why we’re bringing together so many global experts at this summit and will continue to do so in the years to come, in partnership with the Falcon Foundation. These conversations are crucial.”
Later speakers will include Dr. Natalia Vassilieva, Vice President and Field CTO of Cerebras Systems in the US, Dr. June Paik, Founder and CEO of FuriosaAI in the US, Dr. Armand Joulin, Director of Research at Google DeepMind in France, and Dr. Michal Valko, Llama principal engineer at Meta Paris in France. They will talk about AI openness degrees, sustainable AI computing, creating more compact LLMs, leveraging base models for reliable algorithms, and more.
Dr. TII’s Jingwei Zuo will talk about Falcon Mamba, the first State Space Language Model, built with an entirely new architecture and released earlier this year.
The event will culminate in a TII-led panel on its vision for open source AI.
TII’s Falcon AI LLM series has gained global recognition. The series began with the launch of the Falcon 40B, the UAE’s first open source LLM, in May 2023. Since then, subsequent Falcon models have consistently ranked among the top open source AI models globally, as validated by the independent sector ranking, Hugging Face. A new Falcon model is expected by the end of 2024.
*Source: AETOSWire
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