{"id":962154,"date":"2023-08-18T02:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-academic-program&p=962154"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:12:03","slug":"accelerate-foundation-models-research-fall-2023","status":"publish","type":"msr-academic-program","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/academic-program\/accelerate-foundation-models-research-fall-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate Foundation Models Research – Fall 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Call for proposals<\/strong>: Fall 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Foundation models are fueling a fundamental shift in computing research and across the sciences. Even as industry-led advances in AI continue to reach new heights, we believe that a vibrant and diverse research ecosystem remains essential to realizing the promise of AI to benefit people and society while mitigating risks. Accelerate Foundation Models Research (AFMR) is a research grant program through which we will make leading foundation models hosted by Microsoft Azure more accessible to the academic research community via Microsoft Azure AI services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By driving deeper collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and sectors, we aim to unlock the full potential of AI across greater breadth of research pursuits, application domains, and societal contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e.g., enable robustness, sustainability, transparency, trustfulness, develop evaluation approaches)<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e.g., increase human ingenuity, creativity and productivity, decrease AI digital divide)<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e.g., advanced knowledge discovery, causal understanding, generation of multi-scale multi-modal scientific data)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following resources may be made available to researchers (principal investigators) whose proposals are selected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please carefully review and consider the below as it relates to the proposal process for the Microsoft Research Accelerate Foundation Models Research program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proposals must be written in English and should be submitted to Accelerate Foundation Models Research no later than midnight (Pacific Daylight Savings Time) on September 12, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Microsoft shall have no obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any submitted proposals. Therefore, proposals should not contain information that is considered proprietary, classified, confidential, restricted, or sensitive. All such requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis and will be approved or denied at Microsoft\u2019s sole discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proposals should include the following sections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Participants are encouraged to visit the Azure OpenAI Service\u2019s transparency note (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, which provides information and guidelines for responsible use of the service as well as system limitations that may be applicable to the proposed research scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following conditions apply to submissions and, as applicable if selected, your participation in the program as principal investigators (PIs). By submitting a proposal, you agree to the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout the program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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