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The Government promotes Aina Hack, a hackathon to solve challenges for the Catalan Administration with AI
November 8th and 9th at Espai Bital (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat). Registrations open until October 31st. The Espai Bital, in Hospitalet de Llobregat, will host the Aina Hack on November 8 and 9, a hackathon promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya [...]
How to optimize a TTS model with multiple speakers
The research that is part of the Aina Project, promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya , aims to develop a digital infrastructure for Catalan. At the same time, researchers work to achieve new improvements following the excellence in research developed [...]
The Common Voice corpus: optimism and pending challenges
The publication of the latest Common Voice dataset confirms the consolidation of Catalan as the language with the most recorded hoursand validated on the platform. It is very good news for the Catalan linguistic community and for the development of [...]
Aina presents the most advanced and open source AI resources
The Aina Project shared the latest technological advances during this year's edition of LREC-Coling 2024. The event took place between May 20 and 25 in Turin, Italy. Among the various developments, researchers from the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona [...]
The BSC establishes the foundations with GSMA, VEON and Beeline for the development of AI tools in non-global languages in the framework of the Aina Alliance GalleryThe BSC establishes the foundations with GSMA, VEON and Beeline for the development of AI tools in non-global languages in the framework of the Aina Alliance
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The BSC establishes the foundations with GSMA, VEON and Beeline for the development of AI tools in non-global languages in the framework of the Aina Alliance
VEON and Beeline Kazakhstan, which operate in Eurasian countries with speakers of languages with few digital resources, will collaborate with the BSC using the experience gained from the Aina project The agreement takes place within the framework of the Aina [...]
Aina promotes the first voice solution that incorporates the different variants of Catalan
The new Matxa model is now available to be tested and run on the Hugging Face open source AI platform The Aina project for artificial intelligence and language technologies celebrates Sant Jordi by publishing the first voice synthesis model in [...]
Aina explains to Sobtec Congress 2024 how open AI resources are developed
The researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's Language Technologies Unit , Javier Aula-Blasco , Carlos Escolano and Martí Llopart, explain at the VI Congress of Technological Sovereignty the impact of the open resources developed by the Aina Project . All [...]
The BSC and the Generalitat de Catalunya present the Aina Challenge
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Generalitat de Catalunya present the Aina Challenge: the program to accelerate the use and development of AI tools in Catalan. One more step, to achieve the technological transfer of the technologies developed by [...]
Aina will develop language models also in Aranese
The Institut d'Estudis Aranesi (IEA-AALO) will transfer voice, text and metadata data to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) . Key resources through which Aina will develop linguistic models, for the first time, also in Aranese. Both entities sign a key [...]
Aina presents the new LLM Flor 6.3B model
The team of the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is making progress in the development of multilingual models and launching the new Flor-6.3B language model completely Open Source. This is the second Language Model (LLM) trained so [...]
Success of Aina’s technical day
The webinar " Aina's horizon: status of the project " held this Thursday, December 19, detailed the latest developments in the project. Aina's coordinator and researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Marta Villegas , together with other members [...]
Âguila7b, the new open source LLM for Catalan and Spanish developed by the BSC
Researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) publish a first model of a large open source language (LLM), licensed for both research and commercial use called "Âguila" . It is a 7B-parameter LLM consisting of 26 billion Spanish, Catalan [...]
