{"id":142708,"date":"2024-11-28T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorythailand.com\/?p=142708"},"modified":"2024-11-28T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:06:11","slug":"chulagenie-ai-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorythailand.com\/en\/chulagenie-ai-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Chula launches ‘ChulaGENIE’ AI tool with Google Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chulalongkorn University (Chula) and Google Cloud today announced the inauguration of ChulaGENIE, a continuous application delivery project that makes the world\u2019s most advanced generative AI (gen AI) capabilities safely, securely, and freely available to Chula\u2019s entire community. ChulaGENIE will be initially available to Chula staff and faculty members in January 2025, with all students receiving access in March 2025. ChulaGENIE stands for \u2018Chula\u2019s Generative AI Environment for Nurturing Intelligence and Education.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through its integration with Model Garden on Vertex AI, ChulaGENIE lets users discover and choose from a curated set of AI foundation models. These models have varying strengths and are suitable for different tasks. Initially, users can use Google\u2019s Gemini 1.5 Flash or Gemini 1.5 Pro. They will soon also have the option of using enterprise-grade versions of Anthropic\u2019s Claude models and Meta\u2019s Llama models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ChulaGENIE users can tap Gemini models\u2019 multilinguality to get easy-to-understand explanations of intricate topics or generate content in Thai, English, and other languages with speed and precision. With these models\u2019 multimodality and long context window, users can upload lengthy and complex documents (e.g., 1.4 million words with tables, charts, and images), including PDFs. Gemini models can process the text and visual elements within these documents to help users extract specific information or insights. This is especially useful for researchers who need to summarize academic literature or analyze datasets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Dr. Wilert Puriwat<\/strong>, President, Chulalongkorn University, said: “For Chula to realize its vision of becoming Thailand\u2019s premier AI university, we needed best-in-class capabilities to accelerate the development of trusted and sovereign AI that benefits society. Google Cloud’s Vertex AI provides all the capabilities we are looking for within a single platform. It offers rigorous safety, privacy, and security safeguards; flexibility of choice through Model Garden; and the ability to customize powerful foundation models for diverse needs and more accurate responses. This allowed us to build and unveil ChulaGENIE in under three months, making Chula the first university in Thailand to offer a gen AI application for higher education that is customizable by users, adheres to responsible AI principles, and serves the community at scale. In collaboration with Google Cloud, we plan to continuously enhance ChulaGENIE while enabling more homegrown, education-centric AI innovations to achieve maturity and adoption momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empowering the Chula community with customizable and responsible AI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chula will soon introduce a new functionality within ChulaGENIE: members of the Chula community will be able to create custom AI agents specializing in a particular area to assist themselves, or others, with specific tasks. Potential examples of customized AI agents include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n