The first AI workshop on LLM/Foundation Models focusing on cross-discipline interaction will be held on 17-18 October, 2023 in Amsterdam. 

The last year has been a landmark one, with the arrival of ChatGPT and GPT4, demarcating a new era of AI research on foundation models. While scale was always a key factor in learning, these models have shown that scale has an unexpectedly big impact on generalization and, importantly, the importance of multimodality.

This paves the way for AI subfields that had splintered in the last decades, like language, vision, audio, and so on, to converge once again. As such, together with several key researchers in NLP, vision, multimedia, and so on, the University of Amsterdam took the initiative to organize one of the first European workshops on this very subject and the first that brings renowned researchers from different AI sub-disciplines in Europe, who would normally not meet each other.