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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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Mice actively seek better views to make visual decisions

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.

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Nine ERC Advanced Grants awarded to EPFL researchers

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.

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EPFL researchers create an AI model that thinks like we do

An EPFL team has created a new Large Language Model that is structured similarly to a human brain, allowing users more control and moving away from “black box” AI.

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Smarter waste sorting with AI

EPFL startup WasteFlow has developed an AI-powered copilot that identifies and measures waste streams, helping sorting facilities work more efficiently. Support from several EPFL entrepreneurship programs helped the company accelerate the development of its technology.

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EPFL launches the world’s first fully open medical LLMs

MeditronFO is the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, to make AI in healthcare more transparent and accountable.

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