Tübingen AI Center
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We are a joint partnership of University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. We aim at developing robust learning systems and societally responsible AI. https://tuebingen.ai/imprint https://tuebingen.ai/privacy-policy#c1104
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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🚗 KE:SAI got their own car for data collection and, once we have a permit, policy testing! Read more at: kesai.eu/blog/2026-07...
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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Ready for a research stay in beautiful Ljubljana? Collaborate with the JSI ELLIOT team in Slovenia on cutting-edge multimodal auto-fine-tuning and AI debiasing. Help us make adapting large models cheaper, faster and fairer for everyone! 🔗 Apply here: www.elliot-ai.eu/mobility-pro...
If your morale is waning over last minute paper submission or a complicated draft proposal - check out this charming report of this unlikely lab member over at @mpicybernetics.bsky.social:
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics@mpicybernetics.bsky.social · last mo.An unlikely lab member with a ‘dogtorate’ in morale management: Meet Zazil, the rescue dog in the Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience lab. She taught everyone a thing or two about resilience and persistence. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... #LabCulture #LabLife #WorkCulture
We are recruiting several Early Career Research Group Leaders for Machine Learning in Science (m/f/d; E14 TV-L, 100%) in Tübingen! Open to researchers directly after their PhD or with postdoctoral experience. Application deadline: July 15, 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
Eyewire II is a great research project from @philipp.hertie.ai's lab and international collaborators! Read @janlause.bsky.social's thread to find out more👇
Jan Lause@janlause.bsky.social · 2mo agoMeet Eyewire II: a new connectomic resource for the mouse retina. ~1 mm² of retina at nanometer resolution, with synapses and circuits of ca. 100,000 neurons, plus visual responses from the ~400 neurons shown in the video! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Data: eyewire.ai 🧠📈 🧠💻🧪 #VisionScience
Check out this new article on the work of the ELIAS Alliance, quoting our co-head Matthias Bethge and PI @andreasgeiger.bsky.social: www.deutschland.de/en/topic/bus...
When the forest breaks down, this AI system will raise the alarm
Across Europe, the ELIAS Alliance is networking AI researchers in the areas of sustainability and ethics. Three of its eight hubs are based in Germany.
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Missed the deadline? You’re in luck! 🚨 👉 Deadline Extended: Friday, 12 June! Last call to dive into robust, multimodal AI for autonomous driving! 🏎️✨ 👇 Apply before Friday! pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/ @ellis.eu @valeoai.bsky.social @uab.cat
ELLIS Summer School on Autonomous Driving — Barcelona 2026
An official ELLIS Summer School — four intensive days in Barcelona where world-class researchers and the next generation of scientists converge to push the boundaries of perception, world models, end-to-end driving, and beyond.
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ELLIOT Project@elliot-eu.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe future of Autonomous Driving is heading to Barcelona! 🏎️🏙️ Supported by ELLIOT, this ELLIS Summer School allows researchers to learn from experts and build new collaborations over four intensive days. 🚀 Apply by 8 June! ⏳ pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/ @ellis.eu @valeoai.bsky.social @uab.cat
KE:SAI has been (briefly) featured in ZDF Länderspiegel! Watch here (starting at 17:00, in German): www.zdf.de/video/magazi...
Also featuring: our PI @andreasgeiger.bsky.social's new AI start-up @kesai.eu:
Cyber Valley@cyber-valley.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 Our CEO, Florian Mayer, talked to the ZDF last week. Check out the short feature in ZDF Länderspiegel - together with KE:SAI @kesai.eu - (starting at Min. 17:00) in German "Südwestens Industrie unter Druck - Wie sich das Ländle umorientiert" 👉 www.zdf.de/play/magazin...
Can you trust AI chatbots with medical advice? In our latest blog post, Carsten Eickhoff (@health-nlp.com), Professor for E-Health and Medical Data Science, puts recent research on AI chatbots in healthcare into context: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/half-of-a... #DigitalHealth #HealthcareAI
Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study — MACHINE LEARNING for science
AI chatbot health advice may sound convincing, but its content can be deeply problematic. In this article, Carsten Eickhoff, Professor for E-Health and Medical Data Science, puts the findings of the l...
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Congratulations for your successful launch and welcome in our building, @kesai.eu team! 🎊👍
KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence@kesai.eu · 3mo agoToday @kyutai-labs.bsky.social and @ellisinsttue.bsky.social launch @kesai.eu! Robot learning is bottlenecked by the cost of physical interaction. Our mission is to advance the efficiency frontier of robust & safe physical AI through fully open and reproducible research. kesai.eu/blog/2026-05...
ELLIOT is proud to support the 6th Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI (#BIAS2026) in Naples, part of @ecmlpkdd.org. 📝 Call for Papers is OPEN! Whether it’s novel research or a short abstract, help us shape the future of trustworthy AI. ⏳ Submit by 5 June: elliot-ai.eu/events/6th-w...
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ML for Science@ml4science.bsky.social · 3mo agoBy combining the latest imaging techniques with #AI, the project could revolutionize our understanding of visual information processing in the brain and help develop new treatments for eye diseases. Read more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... Photos: F. Albrecht/Uni Tübingen, Elia Schmid (2/2)
#JobAlert at the Tübingen AI Center 🚀 Looking for a role that keeps a leading AI research hub running smoothly? We’re seeking a Facilities & Operations Coordinator: A hands-on position at the intersection of organization, infrastructure, and collaboration. 👉 Apply: tuebingen.ai/careers/faci...
How do early-stage AI ideas move closer to real-world impact? At the Tübingen AI Center, it’s about more than research: building the right ecosystem, connecting talent, and supporting the path from idea to application. Curious how this works in practice? Take a look 👇
It’s time to take your research across borders! ✈️ Discover the ELLIOT Mobility Initiative in this poster presentation by Damar Hoogland (JSI). Learn who can participate, how it works, and how to get involved in our knowledge exchange! Ready to apply? www.elliot-ai.eu/mobility-pro...
🎉 Applications are open for MLSS 2026 — the 50th edition of the Machine Learning Summer School! Join us in Tübingen for world-class lectures, hands-on sessions, and an amazing ML community. 🧠 Apply now 👉 mlss2026.is.tuebingen.mpg.de #MLSS2026 #MachineLearning #SummerSchool #ML
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We're excited to welcome our 2026 AIMS Fellows: Ndim Handson Nsani, Arlette Musanabera, Vongai Mitchell Makuwaza, Dzodzoenyenye Senanou and Benedict Ositadinma Ejelonu have recently arrived in Tübingen and started their nine-month research visit. We wish them a productive and rewarding stay!
Check out the exciting use cases of multimodal generalist foundation models our consortium works on with @elliot-eu.bsky.social :
ELLIOT Project@elliot-eu.bsky.social · 4mo agoCurious about what’s behind ELLIOT? 👀 Our new presentation brings it all together, from who we are and what we’re building to the challenges we’re tackling in AI. Take a look 👇 cms.elliot-ai.eu/assets/promo...
What does it take to move ELLIOT forward? 📈 This March, partners from across Europe came together to share progress, exchange ideas and align on what’s next. Take a look behind the scenes! 👀
New paper: Back into Plato’s Cave Are vision and language models converging to the same representation of reality? The Platonic Representation Hypothesis says yes. BUT we find the evidence for this is more fragile than it looks. Project page: akoepke.github.io/cave_umwelten/ 1/9
Back into Plato's Cave: Examining Cross-modal Representational Convergence at Scale
Back into Plato's Cave: Examining Cross-modal Representational Convergence at Scale
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Ready to shape the future of AI? 🚀 Follow ELLIOT’s journey as we build multimodal AI for real-world impact - from climate to mobility and beyond. This is where our community begins. Be part of it! 👇 www.elliot-ai.eu/newsletters
Bei I’m a Scientist geht es im Juni wieder um Künstliche Intelligenz: Wissenschaftler*innen, die zu KI forschen und Interesse am Austausch mit Schüler*innen haben, können sich ab sofort als Expert*innen bewerben. 👉 imascientist.de/bewerbungsfo... @volkswagenstiftung.de @rhetai.bsky.social #Wisskomm
Looking back, with Cyber Valley, to a time when Tübingen AI Center was just being created and our town was a hotbed of heated debate 😉. Engaging with the public and considering the ethics of research and development in AI became a central concern within Cyber Valley:
Cyber Valley@cyber-valley.bsky.social · 4mo agoCyber Valley is turning 10 in 2026! 🎉 This month, we’re looking back to 2018, which marked an important moment for the exchange between AI research & society: The lecture hall occupation in Tübingen 👉 In this article, we look back on the protests and its consequences: cyber-valley.de/en/news/2018...
Small is the new big in AI In “The Curious Case of In-Training Compression of State Space Models,” T. Konstantin Rusch et al. introduce CompreSSM: compressing state space models already during training. Accepted at @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2026! 🇧🇷 Read more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/smal...
Small is the New Big: The Power of Lean AI
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Our Tübingen Women in Machine Learning group hosted another well-attended workshop on our premises:
@twiml.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe 4th TWiML Workshop was a blast! 🚀 With more than 80 participants, we had an engaging day with four inspiring researchers who shared their insights and experiences through presentations and a lively panel discussion. A big thank you to all participants and speakers⚡
#cosyne2026 attendees: Consider checking out our new work on alignment pattern analysis as a way of tightening the definition of what it means for a model to be brain-like! Poster 1-085, Thur 12 March. Everyone else: you can also find the #ICLR2026 paper here: openreview.net/forum?id=cMG...
