Tucano Project won First Place in Most Interesting Results Competition Tucano Project won First Place in Most Interesting Results Competition

The Tucano project¹ by our team member Nicholas Kluge Corrêa² and colleagues has won 1st place in the Most Interesting Results Competition at Bonn University's High Performance Computing (HPC) services. The competition occurred during the 1st anniversary event of Marvin, the university’s state-of-the-art Tier 3 HPC cluster, where, after welcome remarks by Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz, Prof. Dr. Petra Mutzel, a review by the HPC@HRZ Team and a keynote by Timothy Mattson, researchers gathered to showcase their work powered by Marvin’s computational capabilities. Tucano, a series of natively pre-trained large language models for Portuguese, is fully open-source and was developed at the University of Bonn with the support of Marvin. We are grateful to the High-Performance Computing Team and the HPC Analytics Lab for organizing this fantastic event and to everyone who voted for our work.

Here you find an overview of all finalists of the competition. ³