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Our work focuses on open, capable, and deployable AI systems, with a strong emphasis on reasoning, medicine, multimodality, agents, and evaluation.
Large Language Models
Open-source LLM infrastructure, multilingual adaptation, reasoning, optimization, and alignment.
Medical AI
HuatuoGPT, Apollo, medical benchmarks, multimodal medical models, and clinical deployment.
Multimodal Intelligence
Vision-language, audio-language, long-context multimodal models, and large-scale evaluation.
Agents and Tools
Tool-use systems, HCI workflows, MCP applications, RAG systems, and privacy-aware agents.
Evaluation and Safety
Benchmarks and analysis for LLM capabilities, robustness, responsibility, and real-world readiness.
AI for Society
Financial AI, socio-economic simulations, education, healthcare access, and public-good applications.
Impact
Freedom AI grows inside a larger Shenzhen ecosystem for cross-modal cognitive computing. The Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Cross-Modal Cognitive Computing, built at CUHK-Shenzhen and approved by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Bureau on January 30, 2024, connects frontier research, student training, open-source systems, and deployments in healthcare, education, industry, and public-service settings.
Healthcare at city scale
HuatuoGPT serves Longgang hospitals and community health centers, supporting city-scale triage and pre-consultation workflows.
Open-source ecosystem
FreedomIntelligence models, datasets, and benchmarks have 10K+ GitHub stars and 1M+ Hugging Face downloads.
Global access
Apollo and AceGPT expand multilingual medical AI for under-served languages and local healthcare contexts.
Award-winning research
Recognized at SIGIR, NAACL, NLPCC, ICLR Financial AI, and NeurIPS ResponsibleFM, with coverage from Nature and major media.
Where We Work
Freedom AI is based at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, SRIBD, and Shenzhen Loop Area Institute. We work with students, engineers, clinicians, and industry partners to turn frontier AI into usable systems.
Join Us
We are recruiting research assistant professors, postdocs, PhD students, MPhil students, research assistants, visiting students, and engineers. We especially welcome students interested in the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute joint-training pathway and the Deep Eye research program.
- Project-based frontier AI training.
- Strong GPU and engineering resources.
- Close collaboration with industry and hospitals.
- Freedom to pursue ambitious research ideas.
