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A call for Nordic collaboration

A call for Nordic collaboration

Leading lingvistic researchers and data engineers from the greater Nordic region was gathered to share competence and challenges. To keep up with the technology pace, even more cross border cooperation is needed.

Women presenting on stage in front of an audience
Divvun works on Sami language technologi at the Artic University in Tromsø together with Giellatekno. Photo: NorwAI

2024-11-29


Where does the road ahead lead for NorwAI and language models? A small roadmap for NorLLM

Where does the road ahead lead for NorwAI and language models? A small roadmap for NorLLM

The demand and curiosity for Norwegian generative language models has been notable. The six models NorwAI published this summer have been downloaded more than 10 000 times. Plans for what comes next is taking shape.

The NorLLM logo

 

2024-11-26


Terje Brasethvik new research director at NorwAI

Terje Brasethvik new research director at NorwAI

For the coming year, Terje Brasethvik, joins NorwAI’s core team as the Innovation Director. Read his thoughts on the new trends in AI research.

Terje Brasethvik speaking on stage
Terje Brasethvik
Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU

2024-11-26


The internal NorwAI Forums helps overcome boundaries for partner innovations

The internal NorwAI Forums helps overcome boundaries for partner innovations

NorwAIs innovation team meets regularly to identify and mitigate innovation challenges. Till Christopher Lech in SINTEF Digital invited partners to work together. Here is a report from the meeting.

2024-11-26


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Till Lech of SINTEF Digital new Innovation Director

Till Lech of SINTEF Digital new Innovation Director

Research Manager Till Christopher Lech at SINTEF Digital in Oslo was appointed Innovation Director in August this year. What are his ambitions in his new position?

Till Lech speaking in stage
Till Lech at SINTEF Digital. Photo: Kai T. Dragland

2024-10-29 


Nordic cooperation to protect minority languages in the age of AI

Nordic Language Technology Get-together to Include Minority Languages 

As society is becoming increasingly digitized, professionals in the Nordics want to ensure that the new solutions that language technology and artificial intelligence can offer, are available for all languages in the Nordics. 

The organizers for the Get-together in Trondheim on November 5th and 6th hope to foster cooperation across national borders and languages. They will also launch a new language technology platform for small languages and have a poster session.  

The conference is a cooperation between ASTIN (Arbetsgruppen för språkteknologi i Norden) with members UiT The Artic University, of Norway, Språkrådet vid Institutet för språk och folkminnen in Sweden, Dansk Sprognævn in Denmark and  Språkrådet, NorwAI in cooperation with NorwAI, Norwehian Research Center for AI Innovation.  
 

 

2024-10-29


Several new research positions on its way in 2025

Several new research positions on its way in 2025


NorwAI aimed at educating up to 500 master students and 40 research fellows. Before the final lap of the research center’s lifetime till 2028, several new postions are to be announced in 2025. And where do NorwAI stand on its educational ambitions? 

2024-10-29


Medbric to assist doctors in the primary healthcare service

Medbric to assist doctors in the primary healthcare service 

Jon Espen Ingvaldsen of NorwAI and Jorunn Thaulow of the University of Oslo has joined hands to bring AI state-of-the-art-technology into medical practice. The test period showed very good results after more than 100 GPs participated. 

Jon Espen Ingvaldsen and Jorunn Thaulow on stage
With the healthcare sector facing a growing demand for manpower and resources, innovative technologies like Medbric are highly sought after to enhance efficiency.
Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU
 

2024-09-30 


AI: what will it take for Norway to succeed?

AI: what will it take for Norway to succeed?

-We need more compute, large Norwegian language models, regulation and research, Minister of Research and Higher Education Oddmund Hoel said at NorwAi Innovate 2024 – and underlined that in our country we are not able to do all things at once. 

Oddmund Hoel asks for the word during a panel debate
Minister Oddmund Hoel (middle) was a very engaged debater in panel following his key note speech at NorwAi Innovate.
Photo: Kai T. Dragland

2024-09-27


Learn with NorwAI's experts

Lær med NorwAIs eksperter

Portrait of Jon Atle Gulla
Jon Atle Gulla, sjef for NorwAI, vil være fagansvarlig.

NorwAI is preparing a special course on language models for important decision-makers and developers who want to use the technology in their own applications. In the course "Innovation with generative language models", NorwAI's experts will share knowledge and their skills with those who want to lead the way in Norwegian AI utilization. (Full article in Norwegian)

2024-08-29

 


Award at ICTIR '24

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ICTIR '24

We are thrilled to announce that the paper, "Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access" by Nolwenn Bernard and Krisztian Balog, has received the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the 14th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR '24)!

 

Portrait Nolwenn Bernard
Nolwenn Bernard, University of Stavanger
Portrait of Krisztian Balog
Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger

 

2024-08-16 


Introducing IAI MovieBot

Introducing IAI MovieBot

IAI MovieBot is an on-going project by the IAI group at the University of Stavanger, and is a conversational recommender system for movies. 

Throughout a conversation, IAI MovieBot asks you questions related to your preferences, such as the genre and the release year of the movie you are looking for. Based on your answers, IAI MovieBot tries to recommend you a movie that matches your preferences and reply to your question on it. 

Screenshot of the MovieBot

2024-08-05


Arendalsuka 2024

NorwAI at Arendalsuka 

AI is a hot topic at the Arendal week also in 2024. NorwAI is invited to attend four meetings at the largest political gathering in the country. 

Jon Espen Ingvaldsen
John Markus Lervik
Jon Atle Gulla
Sven Størmer Thaulow
Terje Brasethvik

 

Feel free to ask for meetings with NorwAI - we will be in Arendal from Monday onwards. 

Contact: NorwAI Communication Manager Rolf D. Svendsen, rolf.d.svendsen@ntnu.no, phone +47 918 59 525

2024-07-29


Your summer read by Keith and Knut

Your summer read by Keith and Knut

We asked two leading researchers at the Department of Computer Science at NTNU for their summer read recommendations. Professor Keith Downing and Associate Professor Knut Magne Risvik were not difficult to ask, and they both put together a list in several formats with some brief comments on their choices.

2024-06-27


A guide to Norwegian Large Language Models (NorLLM)

A guide to Norwegian Large Language Models (NorLLM)

NorwAI has since 2021 worked to develop large language models based on Norwegian data. NorwAI has built four test models that are steppingstones to build a super large Norwegian foundation model. 

In 2024, NorwAI’s language modeling efforts will diverge into two distinct tracks. There is a need to train a Norwegian generative model that is sufficiently large to support the Norwegian language at the same level as English and other major languages supported by international models. Simultaneously, there is a demand for smaller models that can be easily optimized for specific use cases and controlled locally using proprietary data and custom adaptations. 
The smaller models will be launched in Oslo on May 15th. 

What have NorwAI learned from its work on language models? The path for NorLLM is described in our new section:  key learning, lessons learned, observations, on privacy, hurtful examples, and other articles in our guide to NorLLM. 

   
Yes, we can! Chairperson of NorwAI, Sven Størmer Thaulow, minister of higher education Oddmund Hoel and Jon Atle Gulla, director of NorwAI share views in a government visit at NTNU.
Professor Jon Atle Gulla of NorwAI will present the next generation of  NorLLM models in Oslo.
 

 

Visit our webpages in English and Norwegian, dedicated to NorLLM:

NorLLM English version

NorLLM Norsk versjon

2024-04-29


National launch of the next gen NorLLM models

National launch of the next gen NorLLM models - Will be opened by the minister of trade and industry

Cecilie Myrseth, minister of trade and industry, will attend and welcome the audience when NorwAI is launching their new language models. The minister will talk on her expectations to the use of language models.

On May 15th NorwAI will present and launch the next generation of its NorLLM models. In addition, a group of partners, cooperating companies and organizations  will present projects and plans for their use of the models. 

The venue for the event is at the Schibsted office in Akersgata, Oslo and will take place between 09:30 am and 13:00 pm that Wednesday.  Doors will open at 9:30. Presentations starts at 10:00.  Admittance is free of charge. 

Jon Atle Gulla on stage presenting NorLLM
Professor Jon Atle Gulla at NorwAI gave a preview of the NorLLMs at an innovation breakfast in Trondheim earlier this year. 
Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU

2024-04-26

 


NorwAI to cooperate with NTNU’s School of Entrepreneurship

NorwAI to cooperate with NTNU’s School of Entrepreneurship

After summer 2024 the two will introduce a new program to foster collaborative knowledge exchange between AI students from NorwAI and students from the School of Entrepreneurship. 

Associate professor Nhien Nguyen and Assistant professor Ingrid Berg Sivertsen visiting NorwAI
Associate professor Nhien Nguyen (left) and Assistant professor Ingrid Berg Sivertsen of the NTNU School of Entrepreneurship.

2024-03-22 


PhD Yujie Xing defended her thesis

PhD Yujie Xing defended her thesis

The thesis proposes and evaluates novel methods for improving the quality and diversity of chatbot responses in open domains. On March 18th she also gave her trial lecture on “The role of academic research on conversational AI in the age of ChatGPT”. 

Portrait of Yujie Xing
Yujie Xing

2024-03-22 


A closer look into personal data

A closer look into personal data

Protecting personal information is challenging with complex AI models that are hungry for data. Norsk Regnesentral and the University of Oslo and Oslo Met has looked into the matter. 

Portrait of Anders Løland
Anders Løland, Research director, Norwegian Computing Center (NR)

2024-03-19 


-Vi treng generative norske språkmodeller

-Vi treng generative norske språkmodeller 

- Treng me generative språkmodellar på norsk? Svaret er eit rungande ja! Modellane må kunna formidla norske verdiar og haldningar, og dei må formidla god norsk - både bokmål og nynorsk.

Det sa Språkrådets direktør Åse Wetås da hun innledde på Trondheim Tech Port og NorwAI’s innovasjonsfrukost om språkmodeller og innovasjon 14. februar -24.

Åse Wetås on stage during a talk
Åse Wetås, Språkrådet. Foto: Kai T. Dragland

2024-02-27 


Can competitors cooperate? Yes!

Can competitors cooperate? Yes!

NorwAi partners Kongsberg and Cognite fight in the same market, both companies with unique strengths. Under the guidance of SINTEF Digital the competitors has joined hands to overcome challenges they else would have struggled with. Also other NorwAI partners are looking at the unique cooperation taking place in the work package Hybrid AI Analytics. 

Signe Riemer-Sørensen
Signe Riemer-Sørensen, Research Manager at SINTEF Digital and work package leader for Hybrid AI Analytics at NorwAI.
Foto: Kai T. Dragland

2024-02-27