1st Multilingual Model Workshop - Accelerating Multilingual AI Progress with AYA

Aya project is an ongoing collaborative open science endeavor aimed at building a multilingual language model via instruction tuning that harnesses the collective wisdom and contributions of people worldwide. The project was initiated by Cohere For AI as a multi-institutional collaboration with the help of a community of researchers, engineers, linguists, social scientists, and lifelong learners from over 100 countries around the world.
The Aya project aims to improve available multilingual generative models and accelerate progress for languages across the world. In this talk, Ahmet will give a brief overview of AYA, present the work that has been done, and the outcome that might be expected from the project.