Swiss AI released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, extending its 8B and 70B open-source models with native image understanding, a thinking mode, a 262,144-token context window (four times longer than Ape…
ETH Zurich, EPFL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, the latest version of Switzerland's fully open language model that can now understand images…
A Slovenian developer analyzed 2,300 of their own prompts to Claude Code and found that prompting in Slovenian instead of English hurts performance less than expected for large models, with a token pr…
Researchers at ETH Zurich and EPFL have built a prototype particle detector called PLATON that uses a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI to reconstruct particle paths in 3D fr…
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new users on July 30, putting the 21-year-old platform into maintenance mode after a 2023 study found that 33–46% of workers were using large language models to co…
Researchers at EPFL introduced Prompting-MammAlps, the first camera-trap benchmark for text-to-video retrieval, and a fine-grained method that achieved a 34% F1-score on 135 ecological queries with 77…
EPFL's Nevo Project aims to democratize AI by creating one of the largest open datasets, but skeptics warn that without adequate computational resources and expertise, the initiative could widen the A…
Researchers at EPFL and Google Research developed Cells2Pixels, a neural cellular automata model that achieves an 8x resolution boost by treating cells as local neural fields rather than pixels. The m…
The Swiss National AI Initiative and the Apertus team announced that their technical report on the Apertus v1 large language model has been accepted for presentation at the ACL 2026 Main Conference, a…
The Swiss AI Initiative released Apertus Mini on June 15, a set of 16 smaller language models distilled from the open-source Apertus foundation model, designed for local deployment on constrained hard…
Switzerland's Swiss AI Initiative launched Apertus, a fully open-source large language model with complete transparency in training data, code, and alignment methods, designed for sovereign deployment…
The Swiss AI Initiative, a collaboration between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS, released Apertus Mini, a set of 16 small language models demonstrating distillation and quantization techniques. The open-s…
EPFL researchers released MeditronFO, the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, making every stage of development publicly available to ensure transparency and account…
Swiss AI researchers released the Apertus Mini collection, 16 small language models distilled from the Apertus v1 8B model, available in 0.5B, 1.5B, and 4B parameter sizes with multiple quantization l…
UC Berkeley doctoral student Yichuan Wang and collaborators from UC Berkeley, Princeton, EPFL and Databricks published PixelRAG, a research system that bypasses text parsing by rendering web pages as …
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking s…
A new framework called PixelRAG, developed by researchers from UC Berkeley, Princeton, EPFL, and Databricks, bypasses text parsing by rendering web pages as screenshot tiles for retrieval-augmented ge…