The Meta AI Program is an intensive 4-month program that supports early-stage European startups that are using AI and are based on open-sourced foundation models. Our goal is to promote the evolution and the commercial release of these projects.
Expand your European AI startup with the Meta AI Program
With the Meta AI Program, the company collaborated with a list of reputable organizations based in Europe: Hugging Face, Scaleway, HEC Paris, and Station F to combine technology support as well as business consulting: thus, the startups do not only evolve from the technological perspective but also from the business one.
Structured by NUMA at STATION F, the world’s leading startup campus based in Paris, the Meta AI Program will support 5 startups that are at the MVP/product stage from early October to early February of 2025. Startups are invited from any EU country and projects are selected by a panel from Meta, Hugging Face, Scaleway, and HEC Paris Incubator based on proposed open foundation models and plans for integration.
Meta will provide technical support to selected startups, while they will get access to Hugging Face’s tools and Scaleway’s computing for developing open-source AI services.
What is the content of the program all about?
- They are designed with a singular focus – to assist you in jumpstarting the creation of your AI solution and shorten the time it takes to bring it to market.
- Before the 16th of August join Gnesta’s program and be all set to start the program on the first of October the year 2024.
- Up for a 4-month acceleration where in-person elements will take place at STATION F in Paris?
Preference for,
• Businesses developing AI technologies – this one is obvious; if you have products based on the application of artificial intelligence, we are your audience.
• Existing products and solutions of startups being augmented with AI models.
Meta AI Program Requirements:
- To qualify for minimal viable AI the organization should have functional AI-MVP which has to be implemented in the client environment.
- Some core ideas are a product that’s built on an open-source AI foundation model or a need to switch to an open-source model.
- Those who need to encounter technical challenges in implementing AI profited significantly from the mentoring program.
- A technical team member from the company who can join the program and actively participate and contribute until the end.
- Employers have to show that they can guarantee their financial standing or funding this either by incorporating sufficient capital or by making constant sales.
- Must be based within the EU to make physical availability for bi-monthly in-person mentorship meetings at the STATION: F in Paris for the four months of the program.