Organisation · nonprofit · CN

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

A non-profit research institute known for the Wu Dao models and for open datasets and tools for Chinese AI research.

1 entry · 1 June 2021

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, or BAAI, is a non-profit research institute set up in 2018 with backing from the Beijing municipal government and a coalition of Chinese universities and technology firms. It drew early attention with Wu Dao, a series of very large multimodal models — 2021's Wu Dao 2.0 was reported at 1.75 trillion parameters — and it has since released open models, datasets and tools used across Chinese AI research. As an academic-facing institute rather than a commercial lab, its role is to produce shared research and infrastructure for the wider field rather than consumer products.

Category
Chinese AI labs
Founded
2018
HQ
Beijing, CN
Key people
Huang Tiejun

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