Stefanie Baade
Deputy Managing Director at German AI Association
Presentation of the German AI Association’s efforts to build a European LLM ecosystem. The development of strong, competitive LLMs ‘made in Europe’ often fails due to the necessary access to compute time. Instead, we rely heavily on providers in China and the US. A strong European network of initiatives, industry and SMEs is therefore needed to promote the construction of supercomputing centres in Europe. The presentation focused on how such a European network can be achieved.
Keywords: Large Language Models (LLM), Trustworthy AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), High Performance Computing (HPC), Multilingual Germanic Language Family, Low-resource Languages, Supercomputing, Large-scale Training
Scientific area: Artificial Intelligence
Bio: Stefanie Baade has been Deputy Managing Director of German AI Association since January 2, 2024, thus strengthening the AI location Heilbronn. In Heilbronn, Stefanie Baade is building and expanding the community in Baden-Württemberg and is helping to shape the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with many partners. After completing her studies in International Management, she worked for six years in management consulting with a focus on product and project management. Her main points of contact with AI were in projects involving autonomous driving and she is at home in the SME sector.
Visiting period: 4.-5. June 2024 at TAILOR Conference, organized by Instituto Superior Técnico