Swiss universities set up new AI institute

The federal institute of technology ETH Zurich and federal institute of technology Lausanne (EPFL) are to step up collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence by founding the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI). This institute will offer a national perspective on research, education and innovation in AI, with a particular focus on transparency, open source and trust, the two federal universities wrote on Thursday. + Get the most important Swiss news in your inbox The SNAI will benefit from the expertise of over 70 professors specialising in AI across the country, they said. Together, researchers will develop the first large national AI model in Switzerland (a model with a particularly large and diverse data set), as well as others to support their research objectives. Currently, only a few hundred people globally have the expertise needed to develop the largest AI models, according to the press release. The SNAI will also focus on training AI specialists for academia and ...