Researchers Cees Snoek and Stratis Gavves of the Vision & Image Sense Lab (VIS) of the Informatics Institute and Tobias Blanke and Paula Helm of the Faculty of Humanities will participate in this European project.

University of Amsterdam is proud to be a partner in ELLlOT, a Horizon Europe-funded project aiming to develop next-generation Multimodal Generalist Foundation Models, AI systems capable of learning general knowledge and patterns from massive amounts of data of various types — from videos, images, and text to sensor signals, industrial time series, and satellite feeds —  and efficiently transferring the generic knowledge learned in generalist manner to a wide variety of downstream tasks. ELLIOT’s models will empower new applications in the domains of media, earth modelling, robotic perception, autonomous driving, computer engineering and workflow automation.

Partners & budget

With 30 partners from 12 countries and a €25 million budget, ELLIOT will play a key role in reinforcing Europe's position in trustworthy, open, and sovereign AI. The project will officially start in July 2025.

More information

Official press release