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New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don't yet live up to their billing

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.

14.05.2025 by Ars Technica

Duolingo replaces employees with AI

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.

07.05.2025 by 20 Minuten

ETH students develop AI tutoring

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

28.04.2025 by Watson

ACM prize in computing for contributions to HPC and AI

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.

17.04.2025 by insideHPC

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy

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

17.04.2025 by SciTechDaily

ETH wants to make Switzerland a hotspot for artificial intelligence

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).  

16.04.2025 by Computerworld

World renowned information security expert Professor David Basin joins INSAIT

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.

03.04.2025 by Bulgarian News Agency

Building Browser Use, going through Y Combinator and raising a $17M seed

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.

24.03.2025 by Ambitious & Driven

A new frontier AI

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.  

21.03.2025 by Machine Learning Street Talk

Paulina Grnarova, CEO of DeepJudge, has won this year's SEF.Woman Award

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)

17.03.2025 by Netzwoche

ETH Zurich ranks as fourth-best computer science university worldwide

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

17.03.2025 by Netzwoche

Another 35 million dollars for Beekeeper

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)

13.03.2025 by Inside IT

Polybot project advances AI-driven farming with SPRIND support

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

12.03.2025 by Fresh Plaza

Is a "CERN" for AI a good idea?

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)

10.03.2025 by swissinfo.ch

Is AI intelligent?

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)

07.03.2025 by WeLiveSecurity

The DeepSeek AI revolution has a security problem

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.  

19.02.2025 by The Japan Times

AI tutors pupils - for two francs an hour

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).

17.02.2025 by 20 Minuten

Dependent, but successful: the special case of AI in Switzerland

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)

17.02.2025 by Landbote - Sonntagszeitung

AI Action Summit in Paris

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.

11.02.2025 by The Sofia Globe

D-INFK spin-off Scanvio receives 150,000 CHF to democratise expert sonography

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.

07.02.2025 by Money Cab

Pre-seed funding for start-up LogicStar

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.

04.02.2025 by TechCrunch

Podcast with D-INFK alumnus Urs Hölzle

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

03.02.2025 by Inside AI

‘Deepseek’ competes with the USA

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’.

03.02.2025 by SRF 10 vor 10

Sifted: As DeepSeek upsets the market, investors take stock

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

29.01.2025 by Sandra Herkle

SRF News: How good is Deepseek

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)

28.01.2025 by Sandra Herkle

Linth-Zeitung: ETH at WEF - Digital characters are brought to life by artificial intelligence

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.

28.01.2025 by Sandra Herkle

SRF Eco Talk: How artificial intelligence is conquering our everyday lives

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  

21.01.2025 by Sandra Herkle

HPC Wire: ISC 2025 chair Torsten Hoefler highlights global collaboration in AI and HPC

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.

17.01.2025 by Sandra Herkle

Spektrum: The algorithm that defied all expectations

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

20.12.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Wired: OpenAI poaches 3 top engineers from DeepMind

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)

11.12.2024 by Sandra Herkle

20 Minuten: ‘Bosses lack courage"

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.

09.12.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Blick: Why Zurich is becoming an AI mecca

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.

09.12.2024 by Sandra Herkle

SRF News: 20 years of Google Switzerland

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.

27.11.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Inside HPC: "The Age of Computation" - Blogpost with Professor Torsten Hoefler

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.”

26.11.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Mirage News: AML drug resistance mapped at singe-cell level

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.

25.11.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Inside IT: Innosuisse supports Latticeflow with 3 million dollars

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

05.11.2024

Horizont: A specialist is better than an all-rounder

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.

05.11.2024

Quanta Magazine: Computer scientists establish the best way to traverse a graph

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.

29.10.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Cybernews: None of big AI models meet EU regulatory standards, analysis shows

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.

22.10.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Bilanz: Die Robojuristen

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

22.10.2024 by Sandra Herkle

AACR Journals: Nobel-winning AI advances are transforming cancer research

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.

11.10.2024 by Sandra Herkle

Silicon Canals: KPMG Switzerland and LatticeFlow AI partner to accelerate AI risk assessments and commpliance for enterprises

“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.

11.10.2024 by Sandra Herkle

RTS La 1ère, La Matinale: Further education programs on AI are booming

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)

23.09.2024

Sky News: Superfast algorithm rewrites network flow rules

Simon Meierhans, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Prof. Rasmus Kyng

16.09.2024 by Sandra Herkle

NZZ: ETH to launch one of the world's most advanced AI supercomputers

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)

16.09.2024 by Sandra Herkle

SRF: “GetYourGuide": from Swiss start-up to international unicorn

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)

19.08.2024

NZZ: One crisis follows another at Open AI

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)

12.08.2024

ELLIS Society: “Being a PhD student in Europe is one of the best experiences of my life”

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) 

05.08.2024

NZZ: Data on Telegram unencrypted

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)

30.07.2024

Forbes 30 under 30: Alpine is the new white

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.

25.07.2024 by Sandra Herkle

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