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Swiss AI Initiative
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Apertus 1.5: Building the next
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"AI tools are cultural artifacts,
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Apertus: a fully open, transparent,
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Apertus becomes the foundation model of Current AI’s new chatbot

Current AI, a global partnership building a public option for AI, has launched Alpha Chat, an experimental open-source chatbot powered by Apertus, Switzerland’s sovereign large language model. The prototype demonstrates how Apertus can be integrated into applications developed by external organizations.

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How attackers persuade AI agents to break the rules

As AI assistants evolve into AI agents, a new EPFL study has found that the biggest safety risks in their use may not come from single malicious prompts, but from carefully orchestrated conversations.

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AI model maps tumor tissue to improve cancer care

EPFL researchers have developed an AI model that analyzes tumor tissues across many cancer types. In the long term, it aims at helping identify and better predict treatment response and patient outcomes.

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Swiss AI Initiative – 4th Call for Large Projects

The Swiss AI Initiative allocated 8.5 million GPU hours in the 3rd Call for Large Projects to support the research and development of open-science artifacts in core areas of foundation model development, as well as target application areas of critical societal importance. The 4th Call for Large Projects is now open.

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“Consciousness is the solution to a problem we don’t yet know”

EPFL professor Michael Herzog, head of the Psychophysics Laboratory, discusses why consciousness remains such an elusive subject and what its study means for neuroscience, medicine and artificial intelligence.

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Apertus 1.5: Building the next generation of open AI infrastructure

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) today released Apertus 1.5, the latest version of the fully open large language model developed within the Swiss AI Initiative.

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“AI tools are cultural artifacts, not neutral software”

How to keep information trustworthy when content is increasingly machine-made? EPFL professor Andrea Cavallaro shares his view.

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