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Start of our ELLIS ELLIS Amsterdam PhD school on Foundation Models here in Amsterdam. Weather is great and we've got amazing speakers lined up! Say hi when you're around :)

Day 1: we start with the talk from Jenia Jitsev 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 from LAION on open foundation models and scaling laws, good ones and bad ones.

Jenia Jitsev 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 LAION Next was yours truly about some post-pretraining self-supervised methods and why video is great for learning string vision models.

Day 2 of our ELLIS Foundation Models Winter School! Amazing weather and an amazing first speaker of the day: Diane Larlus from NAVER LABS Europe speaking about lifelong learning. From Ada and Turing, to

Next up we have the great Tim Rocktäschel from Google DeepMind and UCL DARK speaking on open-endedness and general intelligence. And he even starts with an even older reference to autonomous machines than Ada: the Iliad.

Tim Rocktäschel Google DeepMind UCL DARK And for our final talk of the day: Durk Kingma from Anthropic. From the '20 questions game' to generative models, VAEs and optimizers. The topics covered in this year's school are broad and highly relevant for all researchers in this domain! 🎉

Enjoyed my trip to Amsterdam for the ELLIS school on foundation models (I think I caught the annual sunny day ☀️) I spoke on how we think about vision-language models Mistral AI: how to design them, why they're useful, and why there's a long way to go. (slides below)

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