D-INFK in the Media

Zalando wants customers to be able to try on clothes online. To this end, they are developing a virtual changing room in Zurich. The technology behind this comes from Zurich-based start-up and spin-off Fision, which was acquired by Zalando in 2020. Read article (in German).  

Tiktok is opening  its first office in Switzerland. Zurich scores highly with its economic stability, high quality of life and talent from all over the world – from ETH and ZHdK to a thriving start-up scene. Article in German.

DeepCode, an ETH Zurich / D-INFK spin-off acquired by Snyk in 2020, has been listed by Analytics Insight among the top 5 AI tolls for engineers to boost productivity. 

Sail Biomedicines’ Kerry Benenato and Rajesh Ramaswamy (ETH Computer Science alumnus) discuss efforts to leverage AI to decipher the biological and chemical codes that might resolve these issues, transforming a discovery process into an engineering project.

Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin travelled to Sofia on 7 May for a one-day visit. His programme included meetings with Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev and Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, as well as a visit to the renowned Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), which was co-founded and architected by Martin Vechev, Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Cristian Grossmann, CEO D-INFK spin-off Beekeeper, discusses how to address the persistent retention crisis after survey reveals alarming turnover in manufacturing industry.  

Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs. The new research paper, titled "Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad," comes from a team of researchers at ETH Zurich and INSAIT at Sofia University led by doctoral student Ivo Petrov and Professor Martin Vechev.

Duolingo, co-founded by ETH alumnus Severin Hacker, plans to replace certain human workers with artificial intelligence (AI).  According to the CEO Luis von Ahn, some processes will have to be completely rethought or systems redesigned from scratch. Read article in German.

Two francs an hour, available around the clock and amazingly patient: an AI chatbot developed by ETH students is replacing the traditional tutor. 

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Professor Torsten Hoefler the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution.

New AI algorithm analyzes neutron star collisions 3,600x faster than traditional methods. Study by Maximilian Dax, Professsor Bernhard Schölkopf and further co-authors.  

ETH Zurich intends to further expand its efforts in the field of artificial intelligence. A Swiss AI language model is set to be released this summer. Read more (in German).  

David Basin is Professor at the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich. At INSAIT, he will lead a new strategic department covering the most important aspects of modern information security. He will work as an Associated Professor at the Bulgarian institute, spending a significant part of his time in Sofia.

After a failed start-up, Magnus Müller built Browser Use at ETH Student Project House, together with Gregor Žunič. Both are ETH alumni and Master in Data Science graduates. Their launch went viral, they got into Y Combinator and just raised a $17M Seed. Watch video.

In this video, Jonas Hübotter, doctoral student in the Learning and Adaptive Systems group of Prof. Andreas Krause, discusses his groundbreaking research on test-time computation and local learning.  

The Swiss Economic Forum honours D-INFK alumna Paulina Grnarova as the "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" for her AI solution for law firms. (in German)

ETH Zurich moves up to 4th place in the 2025 Times Higher Education world ranking for computer science. (in German)

Beekeeper, the mobile platform for frontline workers, has received 35 million dollars in new funding from HSBC Innovation Banking UK. The D-INFK spin-off plans to use the investment to drive international expansion. (in German)

With SPRIND funding and mentorship, the AI-driven Polybot project advances autonomous farming. Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf highlights its role in tackling real-world challenges. 

A European AI center? Nationalism and bureaucracy pose challenges, says Maria Grazia Giuffreda of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre – while Switzerland leads the way. (in German)

Computer science Professor Bernhard Schölkopf combines history, science, and philosophy to explore what it really means for machines – and, indeed, perhaps even humans – to be intelligent. Watch talk (Starmus highlight)

The AI model that shocked Silicon Valley with its low cost may be doing too little on safety. Quotes from D-INFK alumnus Petar Tsankov from the ETH spin-off LatticeFlow.  

Gero Embser and Friedrich Wicke, both ETH Master's students in computer science, have developed an AI that provides tutoring in maths, German and English. In this article they explain how it works (in German).

Artificial intelligence will decide which locations will flourish and which will perish. Switzerland's chances are good - in contrast to Europe. Example D-INFK spin-off Scandit and quotes from Alex Ilic, Managing Director ETH AI Center. (in German)

Two hundred billion euros will be available for the development of artificial intelligence in Europe and Bulgaria should make the most of this opportunity, said Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov in Paris. He was accompanied by Martin Vechev, Professor at ETH Zurich and Scientific Director of INSAIT, the Bulgarian Institute for CS, AI and Technology.

The funding will be used to further develop the AI-supported ultrasound solution in order to reduce diagnostic delays. Co-founders are Prof. Joachim Buhmann, ETH alumni Dr Stefan Tuchschmid, Gabriel Fringeli and Julian Metzler from the University Hospital Zurich.

LogicStar AI is a Swiss start-up in the field of AI agents, co-founded by computer science professor Martin Vechev. It was formed in 2024 and has now received $3 million in pre-seed funding.

Podcast by EPFL AI Center with Urs Hölzle, Google Fellow, former SVP of Technical Infrastructure at Google and D-INFK Alumnus. 

The race for artificial intelligence is only just beginning. US providers are still benefiting from a slight advantage. But for how much longer? Computer science professor Florian Tramèr answers questions about ‘Deepseek’.

The Chinese startup's success has shifted focus onto AI's application layer. Some voices, including Dr Alex Ilic, ETH AI Center.    

With Deepseek, the major providers of AI models are facing competition. Computer science professor Florian Tramèr explains what this means for users in particular, as well as for further development and research. (In German)

Professor Markus Gross talks at the WEF about artificial intelligence. With the help of technology, deceased people can be brought back to ‘life’. ETH Zurich has tried this with Albert Einstein. Video in German/Swiss German.

What role does AI play in science? How can the Swiss economy utilise artificial intelligence for new innovations? And in which areas is AI already being used unnoticed? Professor Markus Gross and Catrin Hinkel, CEO of Microsoft Switzerland. Language: German/Swiss German  

In a blog post published by Torsten Hoefler, ISC 2025 Program Chair and ETH Professor for Computer Science, he shared his thoughts on the year ahead, highlighting the pivotal role of AI-HPC convergence in advancing computational capabilities and the exciting potential of reaching Zettascale computing, particularly for AI-driven workloads and traditional HPC applications.

After 100 years, a breakthrough that many had stopped believing in came about thanks to an unusual approach: an algorithm provides extremely fast solutions for complex networks. Read article (in German), written by Dr Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, established researcher in the group of Prof. Rasmus Kyng, D-INFK

The new hires, all experts in computer vision, are the latest AI researchers to jump to a direct competitor in an intensively competitive talent market. Zhai, Beyer, and Kolesnikov all live in Zurich, according to LinkedIn, which has become a relatively prominent tech hub in Europe. The city is home to ETH Zurich, a public research university with a globally renowned computer science department. (D-INFK)

Is the Swiss economy being left behind in AI? Switzerland is considered the most innovative country in the world - but is lagging behind when it comes to AI, according to a Cisco study. Leading scientists in the country explain why the accumulated knowledge is not reaching companies. (Alex Ilic, Managing Director ETH AI Center). Article in German.

Google is already here, OpenAI and Anthropic are coming. The crème de la crème of the AI industry is settling in Zurich. There are several reasons for this success - and a father (ETH alumnus Urs Hölzle). Article in German.

Google celebrates 20 years in Switzerland. It started with a handful of employees, today there are 5,000. ‘We've done a lot here,’ says Urs Hölzle. The computer scientist and ETH alumnus was one of the very first ten employees and founded the Swiss site 20 years ago. Read article in German.

Professor Torsten Hoefler joins Shahin and Doug for a lively discussion on his vision of HPC-AI’s present and future, which he calls “The Age of Computation.”

In a recent publication in Nature Communications, researchers from the Tumor Profiler consortium - among others Professor Gunnar Rätsch from our department - combined single-cell multi-omics and functional profiling for 21 AML patients to reveal resistance mechanisms to the Bcl-2 inhibitor venetoclax and identify emerging treatment vulnerabilities.

The D-INFK spin-off has received funding from the Swiss Innovation Agency to further advance the development of its AI governance platform.

Caplena, a leading Swiss AI company and D-INFK spin-off, specialises in the analysis of open feedback in questionnaires from B2C companies. The platform has been using AI algorithms for coding and analysing sentiment in the feedback since 2016.

Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” With quotes from Bernhard Häupler from our department and D-INFK alumnus Václav Rozhoň.

Out of 12 leading large language models, OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo comes closest to meeting the EU's AI rules, but still falls short of full compliance, according to a new study conducted by experts from ETH Zurich, the Bulgarian AI research institute INSAIT - established in partnership with ETH and EPFL - and ETH spin-off LatticeFlow AI.

ETH D-INFK spin-off Deepjudge has developed an AI solution for law firms to find and reuse information in internal documents.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two scientists whose work has enabled computers to think more like the human brain does, paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). “Machine learning and AI is contributing at every step of cancer treatment and prevention,” says our Professor Valentina Boeva, who is co-organizing a special conference on artificial intelligence, planned for July 2025 and sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research.

“There’s a critical gap in the AI market for comprehensive technical AI risk assessments. Governance processes alone are insufficient to meet AI standards and regulations – companies need deeper analysis to ensure their models are reliable and compliant. This makes technical assessments an essential prerequisite for mitigating AI risks and demonstrating conformance with emerging regulations,” said Dr. Petar Tsankov, CEO and Co-Founder of ETH/D-INFK spin-offLatticeFlow AI.

Artificial intelligence is making a comeback at ETH Zurich, with new continuing education courses designed to prepare leaders for the digital future and AI. One of the aims is to prevent a gap from opening up in society. (Prof. Bernd Gärtner)

Simon Meierhans, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Prof. Rasmus Kyng