Der Professor für Informatik, Otmar #Hiliges, verlässt die #ETH#Zürich. Er hat #LongCOVID und #MECFS und ist nicht mehr in der Lage zu arbeiten. Einer seiner Söhne ist ebenfalls erkrankt.
»Zurich AI Festival – Zürich stellt KI eine Woche lang in den Mittelpunkt:
Vom 29. September bis zum 4. Oktober 2025 findet das Zurich AI Festival statt. Auf dem Programm stehen Fachkonferenzen, Kunstinstallationen, Live-Demos und - als Herzstück - der AI+X Summit an der ETH. Die Veranstalter rechnen mit rund 5000 Besuchern«
Ich werde wahrscheinlich dort hin gehen aber es auch ganz klar als Werbefestival ansehen.
🤔 https://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2025-07-15/zuerich-stellt-ki-eine-woche-lang-in-den-mittelpunkt
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ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".
I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).
#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr
ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".
I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).
#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr
New models improve predictions of snow, rock and ice avalanches
A new 3D simulation tool developed by ETH and SLF researchers now allows for significantly more accurate predictions of complex alpine mass movements, supporting alpine risk management.
The model produces the most accurate simulation of the disaster in Blatten.