International Open-Source LLM Builders Summit
A collaborative summit bringing together about 50 key stakeholders from national and international open-source AI & LLM projects to share insights, foster collaborations, and discuss the future of open and trustworthy AI systems. Taking place before the UN's AI for Good Summit (July 8-11, Geneva; free tickets)
Program
9:30 ☕ Registration & Coffee
10:00 SNAI: Introduction (Andreas Krause)
10:05 Swiss AI Initiative: Democratizing large-scale AI for the benefit of society (Martin Jaggi & Imanol Schlag)
10:40 Meditron: Open-source, Clinician Co-designed, Humanitarian LLM Family (Alexandre Sallinen)
11:00 CSCS: Machine Learning at Scale at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (Joost VandeVondele)
11:15 ICAIN: Broadening Access to AI Research and Compute for Public Good (Katharina Frey)
11:20 ☕ Coffee
11:40 AI2: Opening Up the Full Language Model Pipeline: OLMo and Tülu (Valentina Pyatkin)
12:10 LAION: Open Foundation Models - Scaling Laws and Generalization (Jenia Jitsev)
12:40 OpenEuroLLM/ELIAS/ELLIOT/ELLIS: A series of foundation models for transparent AI in Europe (Matthias Bethge)
13:10 📸 Group Picture
13:20 🍽️ Lunch
14:00 SEA-LION: Building Truly Representative LLMs for Southeast Asia (Jian Gang Ngui)
14:15 ALIA: Public AI infrastructure for Spanish & co-official languages (Albert Cañigueral)
14:30 TrustLLM: Towards Trustworthy and Factual LLMs (Fredrik Heintz)
14:45 AI Alliance: The AI Alliance - Building, Deploying, and Advocating for Open Source AI (Agata Ferretti)
15:00 EuroLLM: Open & Multilingual LLMs for Europe (André F. T. Martins)
15:15 ☕ Coffee
15:30 PLLuM: National LLM for Public Use - Lessons Learned from the Polish LLM (PLLuM) (Agnieszka Karlinska)
15:40 KyutAI: Building Open Audio Language Models (Edouard Grave)
15:50 Swisscom: AI Redteaming, Security and Benchmarking of Open Source LLMs (Daniel Dobos)
16:00 💬 Breakout Sessions (45 min each):
multi-linguality and multi-cultural alignment (lead: Martin Jaggi)
compliance and regulatory aspects (lead: Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche)
technical infrastructure: (leads: Imanol Schlag & Joost Vandevondele)
5 min reporting per group.
17:00 🍸 Conclusions & Apero
Organization
Note that this is an invitation-only event organized by the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI), led by ETH AI Center and EPFL AI Center.
Contact PoCs: arnout.devos@ai.ethz.ch & federico.fanalista@epfl.ch
Official entries:
- https://ai.ethz.ch/details.international-opensource-llm-builders-summit.74610.html