🎯 Funding opportunity for software engineering projects with LLMs!

Rafael Ris-Ala
2 min readAug 30, 2024

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The company Meta is funding research that uses the Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA) to tackle challenges with social impact in the areas of the environment, education, health, sustainability and more. The announcement was made at the Knowledge Festival at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)!

👥 I’m sharing it and encouraging my Software Engineering students to submit their projects, including those we’ve developed using Llama intelligent agents with CrewAI this week!!!

💰 Funding proposal: up to 500 thousand dollars.

📅 Deadline for applications: November 22, 2024!

🔗 More details at: https://llama.meta.com/llama-impact-grants/

The tip is especially for students at PUC Minas, MBA USP/Esalq, XP Educação, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (Ufersa) and UERN!

It’s a great chance to turn your idea into a concrete solution!

Reading suggestion:

Ris-Ala, Rafael. Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2023. doi: 10.1007/978–3–031–37345–9

RIS-ALA, Rafael. Metodologia de Pesquisa em Engenharia de Software. 1ª ed. Rio de Janeiro, 2024. doi: 10.58976/9786500903102

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Rafael Ris-Ala
Rafael Ris-Ala

Written by Rafael Ris-Ala

Rafael Ris-Ala is a Professor of Research Methodology at USP/ESALQ and Machine Learning at PUC Minas. He is studying PhD in artificial intelligence at UFRJ.