COSMOS AI Research Group, YTU Computer Engineering Department

Atahan Uz
2 min readMar 24, 2024

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Hello all,

I’d like to introduce to you COSMOS, the AI research group of Yildiz Technical University Computer Engineering department that I’m a part of.

At COSMOS, led by Prof. Mehmet Fatih Amasyali, we are working on cutting-edge artificial intelligence articles and projects. While we’re planning to work on all fields of the AI, our current focus is Large Language Models (LLMs) in Turkish language. We’re proudly being supported by TUBITAK, the official scientific research institution of Turkey.

Just two months after we were founded in January 2024, we’ve just released our newest Turkish language model “cosmosGPT”. It is a small model with 750M parameters but competes with similar models with 5–10x parameters in terms of response quality. You can easily demo it from here:

Note: Our models, just like any AI model, can produce wrong, fictional and biased content so use them with caution ⚠️😅

We’ve written our first research paper and looking forward to publish it . We’re working on various new language models, projects and papers; stay tuned to our social media accounts to hear more from us.

🌐 Our website: https://cosmos.yildiz.edu.tr/

✉️ Contact: cosmos@yildiz.edu.tr

Feel free to reach us to ask anything or to collaborate with us. We check our inbox daily and respond to all mails. 👋

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ytu-cosmos/

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ytu-ce-cosmos

I’m sincerely thankful to everyone involved for their hard work 🙏:

My teachers: Prof. Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı, Prof. Banu Diri, Res. Asst. Himmet Toprak Kesgin, Res. Asst Muzaffer Kaan Yüce

My friends: Eren Doğan, Ezgi Sevi, Egemen Uzun, Ahmed Zeer, and Hüseyin Emre Seyrek, and me: Atahan Uz

Want to become a part of us 😊? Check our website for how to apply 😉

Thanks for reading, this is the introductory article to our COSMOS group. Soon I’ll be back with in-depth details about what we are doing 🔥

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Atahan Uz

Computer Engineering Student at Yildiz Technical University. Finance,Software, Blockchain and Classical Music Enthusiast.