»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

#zurich #schweiz #ki #KIFestival #eth #ethzurich #live

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).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#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.

ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth

The model produces the most accurate simulation of the disaster in Blatten.

A 3D model of the mountain above Blatten and the simulation of the rock- and glacier slide which hit the village some weeks ago.
A 3D model of the mountain above Blatten and the simulation of the rock- and glacier slide which hit the village some weeks ago.