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(AI). The initiative was launched in April 2018 and is based at

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. As of 2024, the director of the ICAI is

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. In November 2018, ICAI announced its contribution to AINED, the first iteration of the Dutch National AI Strategy. In January 2023,

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announced the ROBUST program, led by the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) and supported by the

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and others. This initiative focuses on advancing research in trustworthy AI technology across various sectors, notably healthcare and energy, in the Netherlands. The program's plan includes the creation of 17 new labs and the appointment of PhD candidates, backed by a €25 million funding from the

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(NWO).

Labs

The ICAI network is linked to several collaborative labs:
Thira Lab
(Imaging): Thirona, Delft Imaging Systems and Radboud UMC, founded March 2019
AIMLab
(AI for Medical Imaging): Uva an
Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence
from the United Arab Emirates, founded March 2019
AFL
(AI for Fintech): ING and Delft University of Technology, founded March 2019
Police Lab AI
Dutch National Police, founded January 2019
Elsevier AI Lab
Uva and Elsevier, founded October 2018
AIRLab Delft
(AI for Retail Robotics): TU Delft Robotics and AholdDelhaize, founded November 2018
Quva Lab
(Deep Vision): Uva and Qualcomm, founded 2016 (prior to ICAI)
AIRLab Amsterdam
(AI for Retail): Uva and AholdDelhaize, founded April 2018
DeltaLab
(Deep Learning Technologies Amsterdam): Uva and Bosch, founded April 2017 (prior to ICAI)
AI4SE
(AI for Software Engineering Lab) Delft University of Technology and JetBrains, founded October 2023 * Atlas Lab: Uva and TomTom (TOM2)

References

External links

* Organisations based in Amsterdam Artificial intelligence associations 2018 establishments in the Netherlands {{compu-ai-stub