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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.