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Bringing together Gen AI researchers to collaborate on models driving impacts for science, industry & society. linktr.ee/genaihub

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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Professor Lourdes Agapito, Professor Magnus Rattray and Dr Siddharth N on their appointment as Co-Directors of the UK Generative AI Hub. We're excited to work with them as we begin the Hub's next chapter. 🔗 www.genai.ac.uk/news/gen-ai-... #GenAI #AIResearch #UKResearch
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Gen AI Hub Announces New Co-Directors — gen ai
The UK Generative AI Hub has announced a new leadership team, with Professor Lourdes Agapito, Professor Magnus Rattray and Dr Siddharth N. appointed as co-directors.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our researchers Ethan Shi and Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato are running a workshop on AI for Stochastic Dynamics at NeurIPS, which takes place in Sydney this December. They are inviting submissions before 29 August. Details here: eethanshi.github.io/stochastic-d...
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AI for Stochastic Dynamics — NeurIPS 2026 Workshop, Sydney
A NeurIPS 2026 workshop in Sydney bridging the mathematical foundations of stochastic dynamics and scientific applications.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hub director David Barber will lead a new lab to develop innovative, open-source AI systems to help secure the UK’s position as a global leader in AI. SOFAIR will be led by @ucl.ac.uk, with partner universities of Cambridge, @ox.ac.uk, and Edinburgh. Read more: www.genai.ac.uk/news/david-b...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Canhui Liu of @ucl.ac.uk sees himself as “an untraditional AI researcher” coming via an unlikely route: sociology and policy. Canhui's background now fuels his mission to help build “a more society-oriented AI”. Read more about Canhui and his work in this Q&A: www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t...
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The society-inspired AI researcher - Canhui Liu on the overlooked forces shaping AI — gen ai
Canhui Liu sees himself as “an untraditional AI researcher” coming via an unlikely route: sociology and policy. That background now fuels his mission to help build “a more society-oriented AI”. His wo...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
JOB OPPORTUNITY: we are recruiting a Research Fellow in few step Generative Modelling under a strategic collaboration between two of our centres. The position is hosted by @cst.cam.ac.uk and may require academic visits to @ucl.ac.uk. Closes: 09 Jul More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There is still time to apply for this post doc position with the hub at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 05/06/2026
🏹 Job alert: Several Postdoctoral researchers and 1-2 doctoral researcher positions in machine learning in Kaski Lab 📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮 ⏰ 28 June 🔗 kaski-lab.com
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
And that's a wrap! We finished Hub X with a discussion about a future focus for cross-hub collaboration with AI for Science, a popular topic. Thank you to our speaker, delegates and partners at the Prob_AI Hub and @ellis.eu.
David Barber and Arthur Gretton in discussion with a seated audience
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hub director David Barber calls for collaborators to help his team achieve their ambition of training a one-step generator from scratch, without first training a diffusion model. "We'd love to show the world that you don't need diffusion models... we want this to be the 'diffusion model killer'."
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Day 2 of Hub X began with a keynote by David Pfau who introduced his 2025 @icmlconf.bsky.social paper on Wasserstein Policy Optimization, a method with potential applications in robotics. He also explored the connection between quantum physics and reinforcement learning, and where it comes up.
David Pfau at a lectern in front of a screen with mathamatical formulas written on
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚀 We're hiring! Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, working with Aldo Faisal on Nightingale AI. 📅 Fixed term, 24 months ⏰ Closing date: 16 June 2026 Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP608/p... #jobs
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare (Two Posts) at Imperial College London
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate in Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare (Two Posts) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse othe...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Richard Turner of @cam.ac.uk highlighting some of the technical problems swept under the carpet by major models used for medium range weather forecasting, including high training costs and a lack of sensitivity to outliers.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In today's keynote, @arnauddoucet.bsky.social outlines an unsupervised method that overcomes the lack of clean source audio data for training state-of-the-art models. SURF can clean audio, for example, by separating a band's performance from crowd noise, matching supervised generative baselines.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Today, we braved the tube strikes and rain to join colleagues from the Prob_AI Hub and @ellis.eu for a workshop to collaborate and discuss the latest developments in core methodology. Our investigator @arthurgretton.bsky.social of UCL / Deep Mind kicked off the workshop, which will last two days
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚀 We're hiring! Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, working with Aldo Faisal on Nightingale AI. 📅 Fixed term, 24 months ⏰ Closing date: 16 June 2026 Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP608/p... #jobs
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare (Two Posts) at Imperial College London
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate in Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare (Two Posts) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse othe...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Better AI starts with better data. We've just funded four university teams to build open datasets, from satellite safety to creative performance. 🔗 www.genai.ac.uk/news/univers... @northumbriauni.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Universities awarded £400,000 to build datasets shaping the future of AI — gen ai
Four university-led projects have been awarded a total of £400,000 by the AI Hub in Generative Models to develop datasets that could help make AI systems safer, more reliable and better aligned with t...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We're recruiting a 2-year PDRA in Generative AI, especially multi-modal models involving computer vision / graphics and Natural Language Processing. They will be based at @cardiffuni.bsky.social but will collaborate with other hub unis. Apply before 20 May: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH404/r...
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Research Associate at Cardiff University
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 06/05/2026
Register now for 'Hub X' on ML Methods and Algorithms: a two-day, in-person workshop in London bringing together leading experts from the Prob_AI Research Hub, @genaihub.bsky.social & ELLIS Unit London! 📍 London 🇬🇧 📅 2-3 June 🔗 bit.ly/4wcbuDL
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Hub X: ML Methods and Algorithms
This two-day, in-person workshop in London brings together experts from the Prob_AI and Gen AI Hubs along with ELLIS units to collaborate.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We're recruiting a 2-year PDRA in Generative AI, especially multi-modal models involving computer vision / graphics and Natural Language Processing. They will be based at @cardiffuni.bsky.social but will collaborate with other hub unis. Apply before 20 May: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH404/r...
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Research Associate at Cardiff University
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join us tomorrow at 2pm to hear Vincent Pauline's presentation.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This month's Gen Biology Monthly will be held on Wed 25 March at the slightly later time of 2pm. Our speaker is Vincent Pauline whose presentation is: An Introduction to Diffusion Model Theory Beyond Euclidean Data: Discrete Extensions for Biology. Register here: www.genai.ac.uk/events/gen-b...
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An Introduction to Diffusion Model Theory Beyond Euclidean Data: Discrete Extensions for Biology — gen ai
An Introduction to Diffusion Model Theory Beyond Euclidean Data: Discrete Extensions for Biology - Vincent Pauline
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Work with Siddarth N. and Michael Gutmann as a Hub-funded research associate at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to advance methodology and explore their use in real-world problems, in collaboration with Hub partners. Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Associate
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in machine learning based in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The postholder will also be formally affiliated with the E...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Work with Siddarth N. and @gutmannlab.bsky.social as a Hub-funded research associate at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to advance methodology and explore their use in real-world problems, in collaboration with Hub partners. Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Associate
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in machine learning based in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The postholder will also be formally affiliated with the E...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Mandating AI use outright can backfire", warns Hub Director David Barber. In a letter to the Financial Times he calls for upskilling existing staff through proper training, rather than simply hiring specialist talent. 🔗 www.ft.com/content/dcca...
Professor David Barber with microphone standing in front of a screen with the Gen AI Hub's Linked In and Bluesky accounts listed
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Andi Zhang @az381.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Many thanks to the UKRI AI Hub in Generative Models for featuring our work and for their support of this research.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A method for testing AI safety by using human-like concepts to trick generative models into making mistakes, has been developed by Hub researchers. The paper, entitled Concept-based Adversarial Attack: A Probabilistic Perspective, is summarised on our website: www.genai.ac.uk/news/hub-res...
A series of images included in the paper including dogs and rubber ducks, providing a qualitative comparison. A green border indicates an example that successfully fools the classifier; red indicates failure.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚀 New research from the Gen AI Hub 🚀 Our researchers have developed a method for training image generation models that can produce higher-quality images in a single step, while cutting GPU memory usage during training by up to 50%. Full story and paper here👇 www.genai.ac.uk/news/gen-ai-...
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Gen AI Hub researchers unveil DiffRatio for efficient one-step image generation  — gen ai
Hub researchers have developed a method for training ultra-fast image generation models that produce higher-quality images in a single step, while reducing GPU memory usage during training by up to 50...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
❗ We have an update on the eligible costs for the Data Creation & Challenge funding call and have amended the guidelines on our website. If you have considered applying for this funding, why not take another look? 👀
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King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📊 Next week, we will be welcoming Georgia Richards to our AI Frontiers series. She will be sharing insights from creating the Preventable Deaths Tracker and exploring the potential for applying AI to the tool. Join us online at 2pm on Wed 3 Dec to hear more. Book now ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/harne...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢Webinar today at 3pm From researcher to entrepreneur: hear from Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of @cst.cam.ac.uk & Mingtian Zhang of @uclengineering.bsky.social discuss their experiences of commercialising their research ⏰Places available - sign up on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gen-ai-hub...
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Gen AI Hub Webinar: Start-ups for researchers
This webinar will showcase our researchers’ start-ups allowing founders to share their experience of commercialising their research.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📢The availability of rich, diverse and well-curated datasets is vital for advancing scientific and technological innovation. ⭐To support this, we have launched a funding call for Dataset Creation & Challenge collaboration projects. ℹ️ Full details here: www.genai.ac.uk/dataset-crea...
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Dataset creation & challenge projects
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We are putting the finishing touches to our quarterly subscriber news. We have an exciting announcement coming up this week - more info on that in the Hub Herald! Subscribe here: www.genai.ac.uk#subscribe
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We will help to transform science, industry, the economy and society through developing the next generation of generative AI models.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Just did the Today prog to talk about the latest GM hands-free driving announcement. I thought I should mention this ad. GM, in 1956, imagining the self-driving cars of 1976.
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Alchemy @aichemyhub.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🤖✨ AI Infused Sustainable Manufacturing Symposium We’re bringing together the AIchemy Hub and SCHEMA Hub for a one-day in-person event. 📅 11th November 📍 SCI, London Last few tickets available! Don't miss out! 👉 Register now: buff.ly/YpkPNCf #AIInfusedManufacturing #AIchemyHub #SCHEMAHub
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Applying to the #ELLISPhD Program? If you are selecting a Gatsby Unit faculty member as your main supervisor, don't forget to apply to the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme in parallel. Our deadline is 3 Nov 2025. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
How studying economics got @manchester.ac.uk's Jason Hartford interested in machine learning and how this background has given him a different perspective on generative models. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t...
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Meet the researcher – Jason Hartford — gen ai
The University of Manchester’s Jason Hartford describes how studying economics first got him interested in machine learning and how his academic background has influenced his approach to AI resear...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A new role at one of our sister AI Hubs. 👇
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ai@cam @ai.cam.ac.uk · 18/09/2025
🚀 Do you have an #AI idea that could have real-world impact? 🚀 We’re offering @cam.ac.uk researchers the chance to get up to £25k + 6 months’ support to bring bold concepts to life through our new AI-deas Sprint Programme. 📅 Deadline: 10 Oct www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Our Director David Barber took part in a Q&A for UCL Computer Science and talked about AI sovereignty and how our hub is making collaborative ways of working possible. You can read the blog on Linked In: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ac... @uclengineering.bsky.social
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Why academic AI research is essential for our country’s geopolitical and economic security
AI adoption in the UK, tech investment, artificial intelligence research at UK universities. Trump and Starmer AI announcement. Microsoft AI investment Nvidia
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A collaboration led by UK-LLM to develop a large language model for the UK’s languages and specific needs has been announced by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Read our news story about this project which will enable reasoning in both English and Welsh. www.genai.ac.uk/news/uk-unve...
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UK unveils Sovereign AI collaboration designed for its languages and public services — gen ai
A collaboration led by UK-LLM to develop a large language model enabling AI reasoning for the UK’s languages and specific needs has been announced by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢 ❗JOB OPPORTUNITY: Today is the closing date for this fantastic role we are funding at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social. ⏰ Apply before 23.59BST. 👇
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions ⏰closing 27 August 👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions ⏰closing 27 August 👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our next hub post doc position will soon be live for applications. If you would like to work on generative models at the University of Edinburgh with Siddharth Narayanaswamy & Michael Guttmann, watch this space!
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Can't get to Vancouver for ICML? 🍁☹️ The whole conference is being livestreamed. 😀 Register to watch sessions like the Computer Use Agents Workshop, co-organised by hub director David Barber: icml.cc/virtual/2025...
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Workshop on Computer Use AgentsICML 2025
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"New research from @ucl.ac.uk reveals that many AI researchers support stronger ethical standards for training data. A global survey found that only one in four respondents believe AI companies should be allowed to train their models on any publicly available text or images." @cianooo.bsky.social
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Most AI researchers reject free use of public data to train AI models - Impact of Social Sciences
Cian O’Donovan finds most AI researchers oppose companies using public data for AI training, as creatives protest and tensions grow between policy, industry and public expectations.
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Technology company NVIDIA last week made a series of announcements, including a partnership with UCL to help develop sovereign AI platforms. Here's our reaction to these announcements: www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/ucl-pa...
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Hub welcomes UCL’s partnership with NVIDA — gen ai
Technology company NVIDIA last week made a series of announcements, including a partnership with hub institution UCL. In this blog, Hub Director David Barber welcomes NVIDIA’s commitment to supporting...
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are supporting an online reading group for machine learning and molecular science. MolSS = Machine Learning for Molecular Simulations and Sampling holds its first session on 3 June, 15:00 PM (UK time) with Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of University of Cambridge. 1/2
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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
In Vancouver for ICML? Our director David Barber has helped to organise a workshop on computer use agents on 19 July. Find out more about attending, or register to become a submissions reviewer on the workshop webpage: www.icml-computeruseagents.com
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Computer Use Agents @ ICML2025
📢 Submission Deadline Extended! We’ve extended the paper submission deadline to May 20, 2025 at 11:59pm AoE! what? A full-day workshop to advance research on improving the performance, safety, and de...
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