Graphcore and Aleph Alpha partner on large, multi-modal AI models

European AI leaders, Graphcore and Aleph Alpha will work together on research and deployment of Aleph Alpha's advanced multi-modal models on current IPU systems and the next-generation Good Computer, thanks to a new partnership between the two companies. Under the agreement, engineers and researchers from Graphcore and Aleph Alpha will work together to co-optimize their respective technologies for pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference of next generation multi-modal language and vision models. Aleph Alpha has received widespread acclaim for its highly versatile Luminous AI model with up to 200bn parameters, with its multi-modal functionality. Luminous enables unique opportunities for customers in a wide range of language and vision fields such as image recognition, knowledge management, document processing, text generation as well as powerful conversational AI applications. Graphcore's made-for-AI Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) systems accelerate artificial intelligence workloads across industries as diverse as finance, physics, pharmacology, and meteorology.