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Beyond borders: cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub

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MBZUAI Professor Timothy Baldwin reflects on his decision to move from the University of Melbourne to help build MBZUAI. He emphasizes the importance of inclusive AI education to ensure the benefits of AI are shared globally. Baldwin notes the concentration of AI innovation in a few countries, leading to disparities in language model performance for non-dominant languages. Why it matters: The article highlights MBZUAI's role in addressing the global imbalance in AI development and promoting inclusivity in AI education and research, particularly for Arabic and other underrepresented languages.

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MBZUAI · AI education · global AI · language models · Compute North

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