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Over these past few weeks, we’ve been working hard on making the Nebula onboarding process smoother, and less time-consuming. So, in the spirit of convenience, we released the Nebula User Guide available for everyone. The guide talks in depth about … Continue reading
With the Winter School in GenAI for Academia coming to an end, we got to explore how Nebula behaved under continuous stress from a larger number of users, and the results are more than satisfying. As an added bonus for … Continue reading
Santa also happened to pass by the Techlabs this winter, and we are very happy to announce that we have two new high performance GPUs that are ready to go on Nebula. The RTX Pro 6000 GPUs support: – Bigger … Continue reading
To give researchers access to more powerful LLMs, the Societal Analytics Laboratory and the Network Institute have started a collaboration. Both groups invested in buying more and more powerful hardware that will be handled by the Network Institute to supercharge … Continue reading
Nebula is a new Network Institute initiative that aims to provide researchers from all departments with safe, seamless access to open-source large language models (LLMs). Nebula is one of the first fully-localized Large Language Model (LLM) deployments in the Netherlands—and likely … Continue reading
In September, we partnered with Mondragon University (Spain), Universita degli Studi del Sannio (Italy), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), Oslo Metropilitan University (Norway), University of Malaga (Spain), and Zurcher Hochschule Fur Angewandte Wissenschaften (Switzerland) to host a mini hackathon challenge on … Continue reading
With the summer holidays over, we want to welcome you back with two new models available on Nebula: GPT-OSS:20B and Gemma3:12B. Along with the new models we also want to present some of our favourite features of Nebula. OpenAI API … Continue reading
Earlier this year, we launched Nebula, a private, locally-hosted, open-source, large language model (LLM) platform. Since the launch we have been running around telling everybody about how nice Nebula is, and how much it can help you with research. Today, … Continue reading
As our Nebula user base is expanding, more and more people look for more information about what Nebula is and what it can do. As a result, we have updated and greatly expanded the scope of the Nebula page on … Continue reading
Are you preparing a Horizon Europe or NWO proposal? Strengthen it by including Nebula, the VU Network Institute’s dedicated computational facility for research with generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Nebula offers secure access to 1,500+ open-source LLMs, dedicated … Continue reading