Antoine Bosselut

Antoine Bosselut is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL). Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). He received his PhD at the University of Washington in 2020. His research focuses on developing AI reasoning methodologies that can be effectively translated to important societal problems in health, education, and helping underserved communities. He was named as one of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Science and Healthcare in 2021. He is also on the steering committee of the Swiss AI Initiative, Switzerland’s largest public initiative to democratize large-scale AI for the benefit of society.

AI2050 Project

Large Language Models (LLMs) have principally benefited communities whose languages are well-represented in the data used for training LLMs, such as English or Chinese. While these few “high-resource” languages are used by many around the world, they do not cover large segments of the global population of 8.2 billion, who collectively speak over 7000 languages. Bosselut’s project will democratize LLMs for these users, leveraging new algorithms that catalyze LLMs to understand and speak these languages, all while reflecting the nuances of the regions where these languages are spoken, and the cultures of the people that speak them.