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EPFL has partnered with Quantinuum to integrate cloud access to state-of-the-art quantum computers into its existing high-performance computing platform, making it the first Swiss academic institution to offer such capabilities to its research community.

EPFL offers cloud access to quantum computers for the first time in Switzerland

2 June 2026

Western Switzerland has quietly built one of Europe's most distinctive robotics ecosystems, not by chasing consumer-facing spectacle, but by extending its 250-year tradition of precision engineering into the age of intelligent machines.

Western Switzerland for Robotics Companies

Prilly’s Visium has raised its first institutional round, backed by Columbus Venture Partners, Concentric, and prominent AI unicorn founders.

Visium lands first institutional round to scale AI in regulated industries

27 May 2026

In this episode of Getting Serious, Woody sits down with Stephan Haferl, CEO of Comet Group, a Swiss deep-tech company headquartered in Flamatt, in the canton of Fribourg, to explore what it means to be at the heart of the global semiconductor industry without making a single chip.

The Swiss Company That Makes Semiconductors Possible (A Conversation with Stephan Haferl)

27 May 2026

Vaud-based DPhi Space has commissioned Clustergate-2, an on-orbit compute platform that successfully ran a vision-language model aboard a satellite in orbit.

DPhi Space runs first AI language model aboard an orbiting satellite

4 May 2026

Harnessing the promise of emerging quantum technologies, Western Switzerland is shaping up to be a pivotal region in this transformative field.

Why Switzerland

Quantum technologies in Western Switzerland

Fribourg-based legal tech company Neur.on is integrating its eight-member natural language processing team into European legal AI scale-up Noxtua, while continuing to develop its own AI translation platform for the legal and financial sectors.

Neur.on’s NLP team joins European legal AI scale-up Noxtua

16 March 2026

Switzerland will host the 2027 World Summit on Artificial Intelligence in Geneva, reinforcing the city’s global role in AI governance and innovation.

Geneva to host 2027 World Summit on Artificial Intelligence

23 February 2026

Swiss start-ups raised CHF 2.9 billion in 2025, marking a strong recovery in venture capital investment led by ICT and biotech.

Swiss start-ups attract CHF 2.9 billion in 2025 as venture capital rebounds

3 February 2026

SWISSto12 has secured EUR 73 million in funding from ESA member states to accelerate the development and industrialization of HummingSat, its next-generation compact geostationary satellite platform.

SWISSto12 secures EUR 73 million ESA backing for HummingSat satellite platform

29 January 2026

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