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GenAI Factory

GenAI Factory


The GenAI Factory is designed to be a production house for next-generation foundational GenAI models and best training/inference practices that address the technical challenges impeding more impactful deployment and widespread adoption in the Kingdom and the world. These models will be leveraged to drive impact in all four research, development and innovation application areas. The lead of this theme is Professor Peter Richtarik

Areas of Focus

  • Ongoing

    Open Weights Arabic/English LLM Model

    KAUST PI(s): Marco Canini, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Bernard Ghanem, Panos Kalnis, Francesco Orabona, David Pugh, Peter Richtarik, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Di Wang

  • Ongoing

    Multi-Modal Foundation Models

    KAUST PI(s): Mohamed Elhoseiny, Bernard Ghanem, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Peter Wonka

  • Ongoing

    Efficient GenAI Inference

    KAUST PI(s): Marco Canini, Ahmed Eltawil, Suhaib Fahmy, Bernard Ghanem, Panos Kalnis, David Keyes, Francesco Orabona, David Pugh, Peter Richtarik, Gianluca Setti, Jian Weng


  • Ongoing

    Efficient Distributed Training of GenAI Models

    KAUST PI(s): Marco Canini, Bernard Ghanem, Panos Kalnis, David Pugh, Peter Richtarik

  • Ongoing

    From GenAI to General AI

    KAUST PI(s): Mohamed Elhoseiny, Bernard Ghanem, Francesco Orabona, Peter Richtarik, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Peter Wonka

  • Ongoing

    Enabling Trustworthiness/Safety in GenAI

    KAUST PI(s): Marco Canini, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Xin Gao, Bernard Ghanem, Roberto Di Pietro, David Pugh, Peter Richtarik, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Di Wong

Contact Us


Email: genaicoe.partnership@kaust.edu.sa

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