LAION Receives Award from by Falling Walls Foundation

JSC would like to congratulate Jenia Jitsev and the dedicated team of LAION e.V., who were awarded “Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023” in the category “Science and Innovation Management” by the Falling Walls Foundation. This award underlines LAION’s unique commitment to democratizing AI research, open science, and open source development. Their goal is to create an inclusive AI ecosystem to study foundation models on various scales from which everyone can benefit. Their commitment is demonstrated not only in their active work for the public, but also in their promotion of international research collaborations. JSC’s collaboration with Huggingface, the University of Washington, and Stability AI was a cornerstone for this breakthrough. JUWELS Booster and other powerful supercomputers like Summit and Frontier helped position machine learning and AI research as a tool for societal progress. Today, LAION proudly unites a community of over 25,000 enthusiastic machine learning followers which everyone can join on LAION’s public Discord server.

The Falling Walls Foundation covers the awardee on its website.

Contact: Dr. Jenia Jitsev

from JSC News No. 299, 27 October 2023