🚀 New research from the Gen AI Hub 🚀 Our researchers have developed a method for training image generation models that can produce higher-quality images in a single step, while cutting GPU memory usage during training by up to 50%. Full story and paper here👇 www.genai.ac.uk/news/gen-ai-...

❗ We have an update on the eligible costs for the Data Creation & Challenge funding call and have amended the guidelines on our website. If you have considered applying for this funding, why not take another look? 👀

📊 Next week, we will be welcoming Georgia Richards to our AI Frontiers series. She will be sharing insights from creating the Preventable Deaths Tracker and exploring the potential for applying AI to the tool. Join us online at 2pm on Wed 3 Dec to hear more. Book now ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/harne...

📢Webinar today at 3pm From researcher to entrepreneur: hear from Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of @cst.cam.ac.uk & Mingtian Zhang of @uclengineering.bsky.social discuss their experiences of commercialising their research ⏰Places available - sign up on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gen-ai-hub...

📢The availability of rich, diverse and well-curated datasets is vital for advancing scientific and technological innovation. ⭐To support this, we have launched a funding call for Dataset Creation & Challenge collaboration projects. ℹ️ Full details here: www.genai.ac.uk/dataset-crea...

We are putting the finishing touches to our quarterly subscriber news. We have an exciting announcement coming up this week - more info on that in the Hub Herald! Subscribe here: www.genai.ac.uk#subscribe

Just did the Today prog to talk about the latest GM hands-free driving announcement. I thought I should mention this ad. GM, in 1956, imagining the self-driving cars of 1976.

🤖✨ AI Infused Sustainable Manufacturing Symposium We’re bringing together the AIchemy Hub and SCHEMA Hub for a one-day in-person event. 📅 11th November 📍 SCI, London Last few tickets available! Don't miss out! 👉 Register now: buff.ly/YpkPNCf #AIInfusedManufacturing #AIchemyHub #SCHEMAHub

Applying to the #ELLISPhD Program? If you are selecting a Gatsby Unit faculty member as your main supervisor, don't forget to apply to the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme in parallel. Our deadline is 3 Nov 2025. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

How studying economics got @manchester.ac.uk's Jason Hartford interested in machine learning and how this background has given him a different perspective on generative models. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t...

A new role at one of our sister AI Hubs. 👇

🚀 Do you have an #AI idea that could have real-world impact? 🚀 We’re offering @cam.ac.uk researchers the chance to get up to £25k + 6 months’ support to bring bold concepts to life through our new AI-deas Sprint Programme. 📅 Deadline: 10 Oct www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...

Our Director David Barber took part in a Q&A for UCL Computer Science and talked about AI sovereignty and how our hub is making collaborative ways of working possible. You can read the blog on Linked In: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ac... @uclengineering.bsky.social

A collaboration led by UK-LLM to develop a large language model for the UK’s languages and specific needs has been announced by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Read our news story about this project which will enable reasoning in both English and Welsh. www.genai.ac.uk/news/uk-unve...

📢 ❗JOB OPPORTUNITY: Today is the closing date for this fantastic role we are funding at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social. ⏰ Apply before 23.59BST. 👇

JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions ⏰closing 27 August 👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions ⏰closing 27 August 👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

Our next hub post doc position will soon be live for applications. If you would like to work on generative models at the University of Edinburgh with Siddharth Narayanaswamy & Michael Guttmann, watch this space!

Can't get to Vancouver for ICML? 🍁☹️ The whole conference is being livestreamed. 😀 Register to watch sessions like the Computer Use Agents Workshop, co-organised by hub director David Barber: icml.cc/virtual/2025...

"New research from @ucl.ac.uk reveals that many AI researchers support stronger ethical standards for training data. A global survey found that only one in four respondents believe AI companies should be allowed to train their models on any publicly available text or images." @cianooo.bsky.social

Technology company NVIDIA last week made a series of announcements, including a partnership with UCL to help develop sovereign AI platforms. Here's our reaction to these announcements: www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/ucl-pa...

We are supporting an online reading group for machine learning and molecular science. MolSS = Machine Learning for Molecular Simulations and Sampling holds its first session on 3 June, 15:00 PM (UK time) with Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of University of Cambridge. 1/2

In Vancouver for ICML? Our director David Barber has helped to organise a workshop on computer use agents on 19 July. Find out more about attending, or register to become a submissions reviewer on the workshop webpage: www.icml-computeruseagents.com

The deadline has been extended for the submission of papers to the Computer Use Agents workshop at ICML2025, which is co-organised by our director David Barber. The new deadline is May 20, 2025 at 11:59pm (AoE/Anywhere on Earth). www.icml-computeruseagents.com 1/2

⏳ Only 10 days to go before registrations close for the Erlangen AI Hub conference on 9-11 June at Queen Mary University of London. Don't miss out! Find out more and register now: erlangenhub.ox.ac.uk/conference-2...

We are supporting an online reading group for machine learning and molecular science. MolSS = Machine Learning for Molecular Simulations and Sampling holds its first session on 3 June, 15:00 PM (UK time) with Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of University of Cambridge. 1/2

Earlier this week, we hosted our first workshop, which brought together researchers working on Generative AI in Biology. 🧬 Read our report 👇 www.genai.ac.uk/news-feed/ge... Thanks to @mrattray.bsky.social, @jhartford.bsky.social and @digitaluom.bsky.social for making this event such a success.

At yesterday's #GenBiology Workshop, Sarah Teichmann revealed that Ensocell, a venture-backed spinout from her lab and the Sanger Institute is looking for talented scientists to join its computational team. See below to read about two exciting opportunities based in Cambridge, UK.👇

Top-level talks yesterday at the Generative AI for Biology workshop organised by the UK’s Gen AI Hub. A lot of ideas and interesting applications! @genaihub.bsky.social

Last chance to apply for this postdoc position based at the University of Surrey. This position closes to applications at 23.59 tonight!

And that's it from the #GenBiology workshop. Thanks to @mrattray.bsky.social and colleagues for leading this. If you would like to collaborate with our working group please email us. Details here: linktr.ee/genaihub

AI covers all steps of the drug discovery pipeline across different functions from discovery and validation to the late clinical stage, says Marta Milo, describing how AI is helping AstraZeneca work towards its ambition to eliminate cancer as a cause of death. #GenBiology

Sarah Teichmann of @cambridgeuni.bsky.social describes projects to map the human body: "If we sort of dream for a minute, then one day we might be able to make whole chromosomes, inject them into cells culture and then have an entire engineered cell that has the properties that we want" #GenBiology

Enjoyed a presentation by Charlotte Bunne of EPFL on virtual cells & digital twins in personalised medicine at the Gen AI Hub's #genbiology workshop. She described how generative models can forecast a drug's success by mapping how cells in cancer patients would respond to different treatments.

Today the hub is hosting our first workshop. Today's subject is #GenBiology. UCL's Chris Barnes kick's off the event with a presentation on using generative models for genome design.

Presented Noise Network Plus poster at Urban Sound Symposium 2025 urban-sound-symposium.org in Zurich last week (28-30 Apr), with Antonio J Torija Martínez and Charlotte Clark. Poster: zenodo.org/records/1535... @sgraetzer.bsky.social @peoplecentredai.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social

Our Healthcare Working Group lead, Professor Aldo Faisal has been busy!

There's just under two weeks to apply for a fantastic opportunity to work with our Hub on Gen AI for Audio. The successful candidate would be working with Professor Mark Plumbley at @peoplecentredai.bsky.social who we recently interviewed for the Hub website. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t...

We have a project funded by the UK AI security institute looking at exactly this risk and how it might be mitigated

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are recruiting for a Research Fellow to be based at @peoplecentredai.bsky.social. Full details here 👇

❗UPDATE: This recruitment is now close to applications because of the large number already received. We will have more opportunities coming up at our other partners - see our Linked In for updates: www.linkedin.com/company/gen-...

Our hub is funding a post doc researcher to work on projects involving the evaluation and improvement of multi-modal foundation models. Apply by 9th April. Great chance to work with @neuralnoise.com and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social colleagues! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Mark Plumbley is part of Gen AI Hub's Multi Modal Models working group. In this Q&A he talks about his research at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social and his interest in music. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t... @markplumbley.bsky.social @peoplecentredai.bsky.social

Interesting to read this @raeng.org.uk spotlight on spin outs - all eight of our university partners feature in the top academic institutions by total number of spinouts tracked between 2011 and 2025, with six in the top 10. raeng.org.uk/news/average...

✏️ The 5th AutoML School w/ a focus on #FoundationModels will be in June in Tübingen. With organisers from @ellisinsttue.bsky.social & ELLIS Unit Freiburg, the school will have intro, state-of-the-art, & application lectures. 📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪 📅 June 10-13 🔗 www.automlschool.org

Still ~8 days to apply for a postdoc position in multimodal foundation models at the University of Edinburgh! (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) -- Fully funded position until 2029 by the Generative AI Hub (@genaihub.bsky.social) to work with outstanding research teams! neuralnoise.com/2025/multimo...

The Chemistry and Materials Machine Learning School is in full swing this week! 🚀 Run by Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) initiative in collaboration with AIchemy🎉We’re thrilled to be part of this journey. Want to learn more? Take a look here: buff.ly/j9Wdql3

ARC are excited to announce a new module on Digital Research Practices, as part of @UCL Summer School! It is a comprehensive introduction to Digital Research to enable all students to undertake digitally enabled research projects. buff.ly/eCOcBOu #DigitalHumanities #SocialScience #ResearchSkills

I’m very excited for this workshop on Generative AI for Biology workshop that we’re hosting at UCL in London. It hybrid so you can attend virtually or in person (limited spots so reach out).