MBZUAI Research Initiative Receives US$1 Million Funding from Google.org to Develop Inclusive, High-Performance AI for the Region's Diverse Linguistic Landscape
Google.org has provided a $1 million USD support to Dr. Thamar Solorio, Vice Provost of Faculty Excellence and Advancement and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), to lead a transformative research initiative. The initiative is designed to dismantle a critical barrier in the digital age: the "data divide" that prevents AI from serving speakers of underrepresented languages with the same accuracy and depth as English. While the field of AI sees discoveries and advancements daily, the language data used to train models remains heavily skewed toward data-rich,
Google.org has provided a $1 million USD support to Dr. Thamar Solorio, Vice Provost of Faculty Excellence and Advancement and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), to lead a transformative research initiative. The initiative is designed to dismantle a critical barrier in the digital age: the "data divide" that prevents AI from serving speakers of underrepresented languages with the same accuracy and depth as English.
While the field of AI sees discoveries and advancements daily, the language data used to train models remains heavily skewed toward data-rich,
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