In the Media

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.