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We’re thrilled to proceed our relationship with Oxbridge-AIx lead by Udai Dhamija and Francisco Morejón, and supporting their flagship pitch competitors Oxbridge AI Challenge. Because the Platinum Sponsor this 12 months, Microsoft is worked up to proceed our collaboration with OxbridgeAI and the Microsoft for Startups Staff, which has been instrumental in driving the success of our initiatives. Collectively, we purpose to encourage and encourage entrepreneurship inside the AI area, making a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive neighborhood of entrepreneurs and drawback solvers engaged on urgent world points. This partnership gives a platform and publicity for main AI entrepreneurs from Oxford and Cambridge to showcase themselves on the world stage. Past this, we are going to present individuals with entry to as much as $150,000 of Azure Cloud credit that they will use to entry main generative AI fashions together with GPT-4.0 and Llama 2 from Meta.
- Entry to Reducing-Edge Know-how: With this provide individuals can entry probably the most complete set of generative AI fashions by Azure AI Studio on a protected and safe cloud. Contributors may have the distinctive alternative to leverage Microsoft’s superior AI instruments and platforms.
- Unique Mentorship: By means of Microsoft’s Founders Hub individuals can entry over a 1,000Microsoft’s specialists throughout gross sales, advertising and engineering will provide steering, making certain that our individuals obtain top-notch help and insights.
- Enhanced Networking: This collaboration will open doorways to invaluable connections inside the tech business, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and collaboration
Final 12 months our collaboration with OxbridgeAIx created some thrilling alternatives for collaborating groups. For instance, our help of JRE and Adalat.ai, two of the finalists from final 12 months’s Oxbridge AI Problem led to their inclusion in Microsoft Think about Cup. Sometimes called the “Olympics of expertise,” the Think about Cup is the premier world expertise competitors that which allows pupil entrepreneurs utilizing the Microsoft cloud to show modern concepts into market-ready startups. Contributors are eligible to compete for the grand prize of USD100,000 and a mentorship session with Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella. All through the competitors, individuals acquire entry to networking alternatives, world recognition and skilled teaching alongside the best way to speed up their startup. JRE positioned as one of many high three finalists within the 2024 competitors.
“We had an incredible time, and received loads of readability, connections, and suggestions that modified and accelerated our product and firm exponentially. Udai and Francisco are genuinely hidden gems that deserve all of the reward on the planet. So completely satisfied to have linked with them.” -Akshat Saraf, Co-founder at JRE.
Many startups joined Microsoft for Startups after the Oxbridge AI Problem, like Rootd, who shared that:
“Microsoft for Startups and their Azure Sponsorship credit have been essential in bootstrapping the Rootd platform. Inside just a few months we now have been in a position to deploy our full stack on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and a primary beta model of our platform. Azure Open AI has been essential for our R&D work and we’re at present exploring Azure AI Studio to develop superior options. The Microsoft staff has additionally been persistently useful and supportive in our journey, and we look ahead to persevering with our relationship with them within the months to return.”-CEO Madeleine Hahne, Co-founder Annabel Collinson and CTO Cherian Mathew.
Functions for the problem are open with the deadline for submission touchdown in October and finals occurring in early December. Click on here to use!
