🚀 We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Kashyap Chitta to the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as our newest Principal Investigator and Hector-Endowed Fellow! Alongside this academic role, he will continue his work with @kesai.eu, a non-profit open-science AI lab he co-founded in May 2026.

Dr. Kashyap Chitta Joins ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator and Hector-Endowed Fellow

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On September 9, Cyber Valley is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with Cyber Valley Day! 🚀 Keynotes from leading AI & robotics researchers. 🚀 An exhibition presenting the excellent research from Cyber Valley. 🚀 Networking with high-ranking guests. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.de/e/cyber-vall...

Cyber Valley Day 2026

Celebrating ten years of the Cyber Valley Innovation Campus!

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🏹 Job Alert: Research Scientist in World Models and Autonomy at KE:SAI 📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪 🔗 https://kesai.eu/join/

KE:SAI — Open Positions at Our AI Research Lab

Join KE:SAI, a Franco-German non-profit AI research lab co-located in Tübingen and Paris. Open positions for researchers in physical AI and autonomous systems.

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Following up on last week! Hear from our PI @wielandbrendel.bsky.social, who co-founded Ontic Labs—securing €3M from SPRIND to pioneer embodied intelligence. 🤖 "What's missing isn't scale — it's understanding." 👉 Read his vision here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/wiel...

Wieland Brendel Co-Founds Ontic Labs, Securing €3M SPRIND Funding for Physical AI

The Tübingen-based startup is one of only ten across Europe chosen for the Next Frontier AI Challenge to build the future of embodied intelligence.

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KE:SAI is hiring! You are super excited about world models and autonomy? Come and join our team! Let's have impact together! kesai.eu/join/

📢Are you interested in staying up to date with what's happening at our Cluster of Excellence? Then help us improve our blog www.machinelearningforscience.de, and take five minutes to complete our survey: nawik.limesurvey.net/survey-machi... Thanks a lot, we appreciate your feedback! 1/3

Startup news from Tübingen! SOO happy for 🎉 Ontic Labs and Feyer, who have been selected for @SPRIND's Next Frontier AI Challenge. As two of just ten teams across Europe, they'll each receive €3 million to develop their companies. Congratulations to everyone involved! 🚀 tuebingen.ai/news/breakth...

Breakthrough for two University of Tübingen AI startups

Ontic Labs and Feyer each to receive three million euros as they reach second round of Europe-wide competition

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It's getting real! We have been working on self-driving for more than 15 years, and most of that work has happened in simulation. Today that changes: our research vehicle arrived, and we can start testing our ideas in the physical world. kesai.eu/blog/2026-07...

Our conference #MLinScience2026 brought our community together for two inspiring days of talks, discussions, and new connections. We asked our community: Which talk stood out? Did you have an inspiring poster session discussion? Here are their reflections! youtu.be/XdZAFMgzwMQ

Machine Learning in Science Conference 2026 - Impressions

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A historic day for our ecosystem! Two massive wins prove our dual strength in deep tech innovation and commercial scale on the exact same day: 🇪🇺 Ontic Labs & Feyer win €3M each from SPRIND. 💼 Prior Labs acquired by SAP in a €1B+ commitment deal. Full details and links below! 👇 (1/2)

From Cyber Valley to Europe's AI frontier

<p>Ontic Labs and Feyer.ai have been selected for the first stage of the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation&rsquo;s (SPRIND) Next Frontier AI Challenge.&nbsp;The two start-ups are&nbsp;...

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🚀 We are incredibly proud of two start-ups from our ecosystem: Feyer & Ontic Labs have been selected for the first stage of @sprind-de.bsky.social Next Frontier AI Challenge, each receiving €3 mio to develop technologies beyond today's AI models. 👉 Explore the story: cyber-valley.de/de/news/two-...

From Cyber Valley to Europe's AI frontier

<p>Ontic Labs and Feyer.ai have been selected for the first stage of the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation&rsquo;s (SPRIND) Next Frontier AI Challenge.&nbsp;The two start-ups are&nbsp;...

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How can machine learning improve weather forecasting and be of help for agriculture or energy systems? Jakob Schlör, alumnus of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning", shares his journey from PhD research to international weather science here: tinyurl.com/39wft8ac youtu.be/-SXro3QmaNQ

ML Cluster - Alumni Spotlight: Jakob Schlör (Trailer)

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We are excited to announce up to 3 PhD positions in a new project on using ML for "Extracting Probabilistic Representations in Exponential Quantum Spaces" (EXPRESSO) with @philipphennig.bsky.social , @mariokrenn.bsky.social, Igor Lesanovsky, @gmartius.bsky.social in the @ml4science.bsky.social.

Anna Gumpert has kicked off our conference "Machine Learning in Science 2026" with her talk "Technology, Firms and Workers". We have a great line-up of speakers, with talks ranging from ML for Biology to Climate Science and Ethics. Full program: uni-tuebingen.de/en/165313 #MLinScience2026

Humanoide Roboter vor dem Sprung aus der Forschung in die industrielle Praxis. KI, schnelle Hardware und Investitionsbereitschaft treiben die Entwicklung voran. Tamim Asfour, Professor am KIT und Sprecher des Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) in der WirtschaftsWoche. 🔗 www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...

Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social has been appointed Director of the Tübingen AI Center, joining Matthias Bethge @bethgelab.bsky.social and Bernhard Schölkopf in leading the Center. tuebingen.ai/news/philipp...

Philipp Hennig Appointed Director of the Tübingen AI Center

The Tübingen AI Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Philipp Hennig as Director. He joins Matthias Bethge and Co-Director Bernhard Schölkopf in leading the Center.

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A wonderful morning of research, exchange, and community! ☀️🌿 Together with MPI-IS, we hosted our Summer Poster Session in Stuttgart today. 🙌 This event is part of the @ellis.eu Sites ICML Fest 2026: Celebrate, Connect, Collaborate.

Our CTO Kashyap gave a very nice talk at ICRA 2026 on "World Models: The Next Frontier of Motion Prediction". The talk sketches the history and also lays out what we plan to do at KE:SAI. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxlh...

Kashyap Chitta: World Models: The Next Frontier of Motion Prediction

Talk given on the 8th Workshop on Long-term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) at ICRA 2026. Link to the Workshop website: https://motionpredictionicra2026.github.io Talk Abstract: Predicting how the…

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🤖 KI-Duell: Lehrer*innen vs. Schüler*innen – wer weiß mehr? Morgen, 4. Juli | 9:30 – 13:00 Uhr 📍 Campus Stadtmitte, K2 Foyer, Keplerstraße 17 Quiz-Show + Podiumsdiskussion rund um Künstliche Intelligenz – mit euch als aktivem Publikum! 👉 Eintritt frei, einfach vorbeikommen.

We congratulate @matthijspals.bsky.social on his successful PhD defense! During his time in the Mackelab, he used RNNs to link neural activity with underlying mechanisms. Now he moved on to a Postdoc position in @durstewitzlab.bsky.social at the ZI Mannheim and the University of Heidelberg.

🇰🇷 Next stop: ICML 2026! ✨ From July 6–11, our scientists will be in Seoul for @icmlconf.bsky.social 2026, presenting their latest work, sharing new ideas, and connecting with the global machine learning community. check out our publications: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...

ELLIS Institute Tübingen at ICML 2026

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Connect at the ELLIS Sites ICML Fest...in Tübingen/Stuttgart 🇩🇪 on 3 July at @mpi-is.bsky.social Stuttgart. Meet the local AI/ML community and engage with the ELLIS network with the @ellisinsttue.bsky.social. 🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/4g8DHWN #ICML2026

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral researcher in foundation models of human cognition at MPI for Biological Cybernetics 📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪 ⏰ 1 October 🔗 https://bit.ly/3QPUweB

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Big news from the Tübingen machine learning community 🚀 We are excited to welcome Prof. Jakob Macke as new Principal Investigator of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen. Jakob is a central figure in the Tübingen ML ecosystem. Read more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/prof... @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social

Prof. Jakob Macke joins the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator

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📢 The next Cyber Valley Impulse on sustainability, agriculture, and environment will take place on Wed, July 8 in Weinstadt / Remstal. With great impulses from science, start-ups, a science marketplace plus a summer BBQ & wine tasting 🙌 👉 More info and sign up here: cyber-valley.de/en/events/cy...

Cyber Valley Impulse on sustainability, agriculture and environment

This month's Cyber Valley Impulse focuses on agriculture, sustainability, and the environment. Experts from research, industry, the public sector, and the Cyber Valley Community will exchange on how A...

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New funding for AI safety research! 🎉 ELLIS Institute Tübingen PI Sahar Abdelnabi has received funding from Coefficient Giving to support research on developing context-sensitive benchmarks and training methods for sycophancy in AI systems. 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/pi-s...

🚀 Curious about Europe's leading AI & robotics ecosystem? Join us at the Science Day of @unistuttgart.bsky.social on June 27 and discover the world of Cyber Valley. Meet our team, learn about our research, & explore how we're shaping the future of AI & robotics. 📍 Stuttgart-Vaihingen 🕐 1:00–7:00 PM

What if AI never stopped learning? 🤖 New research by Sahar Abdelnabi and collaborators explores why safety is essential for the future of open-ended AI. This paper has been accepted to @icmlconf.bsky.social 2026. Read the whole article here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/what...

KI prägt immer mehr Bereiche unseres Lebens. Wie also kann die Zusammenarbeit von Mensch & KI gestaltet werden, dass der Mensch im Mittelpunkt bleibt? Darüber sprechen Prof. Maria Wirzberger & Prof. Steffen Staab von @unistuttgartiris.bsky.social im Interview. sohub.io/caqi

🚀 Big congratulations to Principal Investigator Maximilian Dax! He has been awarded both the Hector Stiftung-Preis 2026 and the Otto Hahn Medal 2025: two major recognitions for his groundbreaking work at the intersection of machine learning. Read more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/de/news/maxi...

Maximilian Dax Honored with Hector Stiftung-Award and Otto Hahn Medal

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