🚀 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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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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The 2nd ELLIS Sites ICML Fest brought together across Europe 13 Sites, 1,100 researchers, & 190 posters ahead of #ICML2026 in Seoul with local poster sessions, keynotes, & workshops from Munich to Lausanne to Modena. Read about how it went: bit.ly/4fsVjuj
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’s (SPRIND) Next Frontier AI Challenge. The two start-ups are ...
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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.
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
🇰🇷 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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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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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...
The current AI revolution is about converting and processing information, a key part of being human -- Bernhard Schölkopf & co. established @ellis.eu for Europe to have a strong voice in this revolution. Re-watch Bernhard Schölkopf's public talk at @aalto.fi: www.youtube.com/live/p7XLgMC...
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...
🚀 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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On June 9–10, we had the pleasure of hosting the annual meeting of the Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg of the Max Planck Society on behalf of our PI and Schiemann Fellow, Celestine Mendler-Dünner. Thank you to everyone who joined us for two days of inspiring discussions and exchange!
What if AI predictions and human opinions continuously influence one another? New work by Wu, Abebe, and Mendler-Dünner shows how AI platforms homogenize opinions where disagreement would otherwise persist. Talk today 11:30am ET @ #NetSci2026 (PS 2.2). 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/how-...
How predictions drive consensus: AI's Role in Opinion Formation
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AI agents are starting to train other AI systems and some are already outperforming human-designed pipelines. 🤖 Maksym Andriushchenko and Ben Rank et al. explore how autonomous agents can optimize LLMs through post-training. Read the article here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/teac...
Teaching AI to Improve AI: The Limits of Autonomy
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The next step of AI will be physical This is the focus of @kesai.eu, an open science lab dedicated to the next frontier of physic @kyutai-labs.bsky.social. KE:SAI brings together leading research in Tübingen and Paris to advance world models and robotics through a fully open technology stack.
At the end of March, researchers from around the world came together in Tübingen for the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2026. Now, we’re excited to share the official event video 🎥 youtu.be/0ojaAmj-bRg?...
CPAL 2026 at Tübingen, Germany
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📢 Two Calls from ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability Proposals Call: Want to join the ELIAS Node network? Apply by 5 July 🔗 https://bit.ly/4fsvFHG *** Nominations Call: Know a frontier AI leader? Nominate them for the ELIAS Frontier AI Award by 31 August 🔗 https://bit.ly/4nGkKfQ
The Breach: When AI Starts to Cheat 🚨 New research by PIs Jonas Geiping and Maksym Andriushchenko says we have a major blind spot. Most safety systems plan to rely on a smaller monitor model to watch over an untrusted AI agent. 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/the-...
The Breach: When AI Starts to Cheat
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From Lab to Field: Learn like a human, work like a robot. That’s the approach behind Tübingen-based startup Polybot for building intelligent robots that operate in fields and greenhouses. Find the full German text here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/poly...
Polybot: Mit Robotik die Zukunft der Lebensmittelproduktion sichern
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Rio de Janeiro is calling! 🇧🇷 The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is joining ICLR 2026 from April 23–27! 🌎 Will you be there? 👉 Check out all of the Institute's publications for ICLR: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/iclr...
ELLIS Institute Tübingen at ICLR 2026
This major global event brings together top experts to improve Learning Representations." This is a key part of AI that focuses on how computers organize and make sense of complicated information.
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That’s a wrap! CPAL 2026 in Tübingen ✨ This week, we hosted the 3rd Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2026 with the MPI-IS and Tübingen AI Center, bringing together experts to advance scientific foundations for learning with parsimony. institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/cpal...
CPAL - Conference on Parsimony and Learning - 2026 in Tübingen
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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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AI may know the answer earlier than you think 🔮 PI @shiweiliu.bsky.social et al. reveal a training-free strategy that allows DLM models to "go all in" the moment they are confident enough. Find out more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/mode...
Modern Day Prophet
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Tübingen has become Germany’s primary hub for this research, where projects like polybot are transforming from theory into reality. Find out what Principal Investigator Wieland Brendel says about the vital role of the Baden-Württemberg government. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
KI, Start-ups, Forschung: Durch private Investition lässt Baden-Württemberg Bayern hinter sich
Im Land der Tüftler und Denker sollen aus Spitzenforschung Start-ups hervogehen - und die heimische Wirtschaft etwa vom KI-Hype profitieren. Wo es funktioniert - und wo es hakt.
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🎉 Big congratulations to PI Maximilian Dax! Max has won the Hector RCD Award 2025. He is one of three scientists recognized nationwide. Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/maxi...
Maximilian Dax Won Hector RCD Award 2025
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We are delighted to introduce our next speaker: Dr. Sahar Abdelnabi, who leads the COMPASS research group at the @ellisinsttue.bsky.social, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social.
Global AI Governance: Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN International AI Panel A strong recognition of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and its ecosystem and an important step toward responsible AI on a global scale. Find out more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/scie...
Scientific Director Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN Global AI Panel
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Are AI systems learning to “game” their safety tests? The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has awarded a grant to Principal Investigators Sahar Abdelnabi, @maksym-andr.bsky.social, and @jonasgeiping.bsky.social. Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...
ELLIS Institute PIs supported by UK government to research AI safety
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The ELLIS Institute Tübingen helps shape the global conversation on AI safety. @maksym-andr.bsky.social served as Chapter Lead on current and future general-purpose AI capabilities while Bernhard Schölkopf returned as Senior Adviser. 👉 find out more institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...
ELLIS Institute PIs contribute to the International AI Safety Report 2026
AI Safety Report, Maksym Andriushchenko, Bernhard Schölkopf, ELLIS Institute
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