The Swiss AI Initiative allocated 8.5 million GPU hours in the 3^rd 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 4^th Call for Large Projects is now open.

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.

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.

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

A study led by EPFL shows that when objects are difficult to see, mice don’t simply look harder. They move to find better viewpoints, adjusting their behavior according to how much visual information is available.

The European Research Council (ERC) awarded nine “ERC Advanced Grants” to EPFL researchers. This prestigious funding scheme gives senior researchers the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs.