TacticAI: AI to improve football game tactics by Google DeepMind. Virtual talk

Hello! Sophia here from BuzzRobot with some updates on the upcoming AI-related virtual talks and video lectures.

On June 6th, we will be hosting a talk with Petar Veličković, a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, who played a pivotal role in developing TacticAI. 

This AI tool has changed how football coaches plan for corner kicks, significantly increasing scoring opportunities. Google has collaborated with Liverpool FC on this project. As a result, coaches have adopted AI-suggested tactics in 90% of cases. Beyond sports, the technology behind TacticAI has potential applications in robotics and traffic management.

Registration for this event is available here.

Please note, the talk will not be recorded, but I'll summarize the key points and share them in the next newsletter.

Aya – an initiative by Cohere for AI to enable multilingual language models

Aya is an initiative by Cohere for AI that provides a multilingual, open-source dataset and a language model capable of supporting over 100 languages.

More than 3,000 researchers spent 14 months developing the Aya Collection—a comprehensive, multilingual instruction fine-tuning dataset that contains over 500 million prompts and completions for more than 100 languages.

This dataset was used to train an open-access multilingual language model (the checkpoints of the model are available on Hugging Face).

Learn more about this extensive project in a video lecture by Ahmet Üstün, a research scientist at Cohere for AI, who discusses the impact of this work on the AI community.