ELLIOT partners will develop 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.
The Tübingen AI Center at the University of Tübingen is part of the consortium with Prof. Hilde Kühne and Prof. Matthias Bethge, who will coordinate the data collection, curation, and generation effort for the next generation of multimodal foundation models. In addition, Kristof Meding, research group leader at the CZS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law, is going to investigate the compliance of large-scale datasets.
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 official start of the project is July 1, 2025.