The resources and models developed by the Aina Project, promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and developed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, have been the protagonists of some of the presentations during the week in which Barcelona has hosted a new edition of the Mobile World Congress 2025. This year the technologies developed by the Project have been presented in different spaces with a mostly young audience linked to academia, industry and the artificial intelligence community.
Aina at the Talent Arena
This 2025, the Aina Project has presented at the Talent Arena the latest developments and current lines of research in the technical workshop “Aina Kit: Public AI resources and how to get access”. From the training data, to the text, voice and machine translation models that are currently published in the Project’s repository .
During the presentation at the Talent Arena, researchers Javier Saiz , Marc Casals , Iñigo Pikabea , Iñaki Lacunza , Javier Garcia and Ankush Rana , addressed the different types of resources available on the Aina Kit platform. A great opportunity to share experiences and resolve doubts with the public. Students and those interested in the field of AI took advantage of the presentation to ask the researchers technical questions.
Following one of the keys of the presentation, for the technical team “it is a great opportunity to have the public’s feedback, since it allows us to improve the development processes” and solve the needs of the different users. In each block, the attendees debated aspects linked to the generation of the resources.
One of the keys to resource development is their use and implementation. The team detailed the possibilities for exploiting the resources and how companies, organizations and community users can download and run the models generated by the Aina Project.
MWC25: The Aina Kit available to the AI community
For its part, Aina was also present at the Mobile World Congress through different stands and presentations. At the Catalonia.AI Stand of the Generalitat de Catalunya, together with other members of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy of Catalonia such as the OEIAC , Aina’s team presented the published resources and how to access them.
Within the framework of the collaboration with the GSMA to internationalize the Aina Project , Albert Cañigueral , head of technology transfer at Language Technologies, detailed what the development of the public artificial intelligence infrastructure consists of. During the presentation, some keys to this infrastructure and how work is being done to expand it were detailed. The collaboration with the GSMA and VEON is one of the examples of knowledge exchange between academia, the research field and industry.
In the same vein, the technical coordinator of the Aina Project and head of the Language Technologies Unit , Marta Villegas, explained at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center stand at 4YFN, the latest developments in the models that are part of the public AI infrastructure and what the next technical steps are. The researcher encouraged attendees to closely follow the upcoming developments in the field of language technologies to adopt the latest models generated through projects like Aina.
