Limited Resources, Unlimited Impact with Multimodal AI Models

AI foundation models are increasingly dominating various academic and industrial fields, yet the R&D of related technologies is controlled by limited institutions capable of managing extensive computational and data resources. To counter this dominance, there is a critical need for technologies that can develop practical AI foundation models using the standard computational and data resources. Our community (LIMIT.Community) and the international lab (LIMIT.Lab) therefore aim to put in place exactly those technologies that permit the construction of {Vision, Vision-Language, Multimodal} AI foundational models even when compute and data are limited. LIMIT.Lab is composed primarily of international research teams from Japan, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands.