As artificial intelligence technologies rapidly advance, AI’s applications for scientific research hold extraordinary promise to accelerate scientific discovery. Now, a UNH researcher will help create a fully open suite of advanced multimodal AI language models specifically designed to support the U.S. scientific community as part of a major $152 million partnership between the National Science Foundation and technology company NVIDIA.
With a sub-award of more than $500,000, co-principal investigator Samuel Carton, assistant professor of computer science, will help manage a community of scientist-users and use their feedback to guide the design of interfaces to the new models. The award will also fund his own research in the use of AI to accelerate the discovery of new materials.
“Everyone agrees that generative AI has game-changing potential for scientific research,” Carton says, “but to really capitalize on that potential we need fully open models designed from the ground up, with scientist feedback, to support scientific innovation.”
Supporting the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project and led by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the public-private investment aligns with the priorities of the White House’s AI Action Plan to enhance the nation’s AI leadership.
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Beth Potier | UNH Marketing | beth.potier@unh.edu | 2-1566
