French billionaire Xavier Niel has revealed more details about Kyutai, an AI research lab based in Paris.
The lab, which will focus on artificial general intelligence, has a budget of €300 million ($330 million) and will be privately funded.
Kyutai plans to work with PhD students, postdocs, and researchers on research papers and open source projects.
The lab has already started hiring for its core scientific team, which includes researchers who previously worked for Meta's AI research team FAIR, Google's DeepMind division, and Inria.
Kyutai aims to provide a scientific purpose, understanding, and code base to explain its results.
The lab's models will be open source, and it plans to release open source models, training source code, and data that explain how the models were created.
French President Emmanuel Macron supports the initiative and believes in regulating AI use cases rather than model makers.
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