Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI
Funds two research projects, each worth up to EUR 15 million, to build general-purpose AI models that reason, plan and adapt better than today's large language models.
Funded consortia run Research and Innovation Actions expected to start at TRL 2 and reach TRL 5 by the end of the project. This topic implements the co-programmed Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics (ADRA), and every proposal must allocate tasks for cohesion activities with ADRA and with the GenAI4EU central hub Coordination and Support Action, topic HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-18. Proposals are ex…
The Commission wants research that combines self-supervised learning with complementary approaches — hybrid, continual, reinforcement or evolutionary learning — to give general-purpose AI models stronger reasoning, planning and adaptation abilities. Proposals should target at least one research area, from hybrid reasoning architectures to explainable, trustworthy decision-making.
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