Max Planck and Stanford to establish visual and multimodal AI centre
The Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Stanford Engineering will jointly establish the Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal AI, funded with about €29 million including €11.6 million from Saarland, with industry partners such as Google and Flawless. Led by Theobalt and Wetzstein, it will develop systems such as care robots that understand speech, gestures, and visual signals.