D-INFK in the Media

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

On Saturday 14 September 2024, ETH Zurich launched its new supercomputer called Alps in Lugano. Switzerland now has one of the fastest computers in the world and a machine optimised for artificial intelligence like no other. (Prof. Torsten Hoefler, CSCS)

800 employees and a total investment of 800 million Swiss francs: the online travel agency “Getyourguide” now plays in the top league. It was a different story when it started in 2008 in a mini office in Zurich's Technopark. (D-IFNK spin-off GetYourGuide)

A hack, a lawsuit, more departures from the security team – and now urgent warnings from tech commentators. How it could have come to this. (Prof. Florian Tramèr)

The ELLIS PhD Program is rich with inspiring stories of young AI scientists and their impressive research journeys, and this is one of them: Zhijing Jin is currently benefiting from joint supervision at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany and ETH Zurich in Switzerland. (ELLIS PhD student Zhijing Jin) 

Whenever people distrust governments and the media, the messaging app Telegram benefits. Recently, the libertarian founder Pawel Durow has been actively promoting mistrust. (Prof. Kenny Paterson)

Because professional teeth whitening was too expensive, ETH D-INFK alumnus and Under 30 listmaker Alexander Wälchli and his brother developed whitening strips for whiter teeth without hydrogen peroxide. The small white strips have now developed into an international business and the two brothers export their products as far afield as Brazil and China.

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a pivotal role in driving innovation and steering their organizations towards future success. The magazine lists their top 10 CTOs in the US. No 1 is ETH D-INFK alumnus Urs Hölzle (Google). Read more.

ETH spin-off Anapaya, which markets the SCION network architecture developed at ETH Zurich, has agreed a partnership with the Indian IT consulting group Tata Consultancy Services. The aim is to offer solutions for the financial and telecommunications industries as well as for the healthcare and retail sectors. (in German)

The global market leader for drone software is now a US company, supports Ukraine - and has gained ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt as an investor. Article in German (D-INFK spin-off Auterion, Alumnus and CEO Lorenz Meier)

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed lightning-fast algorithms for solving complex network flow problems, which can be used to tackle dynamic networks that change quickly, such as molecules or the brain in biology, or human friendships. (Prof. Rasmus Kyng, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg an co-authors).  

In a June 18, 2024 paper, Vilém Zouhar and Mrinmaya Sachan from ETH Zurich, along with Tom Kocmi from Microsoft, presented a new approach to the human evaluation of machine translation (MT) systems that integrates AI assistance to improve the efficiency and consistency of the evaluation process.

Adversarial perturbations cannot reliably protect artists from Generative AI. (Prof. Florian Tramèr)

"The opening of the first ELLIS Institute marks a milestone for AI research in Europe. The leading AI experts are visiting Tübingen and Stuttgart this week - and we want to continue to attract the best talent. The institute is set to become a home for excellent AI research in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe and the world."  Bernhard Schölkopf, Scientific Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and D-INFK professor.  

How does Switzerland deal with Kaspersky? Professor Ueli Maurer talks about the risk of security vulnerabilities in antivirus programmes. (In German)

D-INFK spin-off LatticeFlow announces key innovation to accelerate development of deepfake detection software in advance of U.S. elections. AI-generated deepfakes threaten to impact the 2024 election, while deepfake detectors become critical new tools for journalists.