{"id":21473,"date":"2023-12-06T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/?p=21473"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:35:56","slug":"epfl-and-ethz-unite-to-establish-the-swiss-ai-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/epfl-and-ethz-unite-to-establish-the-swiss-ai-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"EPFL and ETHZ unite to establish the \u201cSwiss AI Initiative\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cscs.ch\/computers\/alps\">Alps supercomputer<\/a>, housed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cscs.ch\/\">CSCS<\/a>) of ETH Zurich in Lugano, is set to become operational in spring 2024. With over 10,000 GPUs, it ranks among the world&#8217;s most powerful computers for AI applications. This cutting-edge infrastructure offers Swiss scientists computing capabilities on par with the world\u2019s largest tech firms, giving Switzerland a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ETH Vice President for Research, Christan Wolfrum, emphasizes the initiative&#8217;s role in ensuring Switzerland&#8217;s digital sovereignty and independent research. &#8220;We must lead in AI, rather than leaving it to a few multinational corporations,&#8221; he states, underscoring the importance of independent and forward-looking scientific contributions in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiss-ai.org\/\">Swiss AI<\/a> Initiative is the development and training of new large language models (LLMs) that meet legal, ethical, and scientific standards. Jan Hesthaven, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/en\/\">EPFL<\/a>, highlights the initiative&#8217;s commitment to transparency and open-source principles, ensuring comprehensibility and accountability in AI development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swiss AI Initiative plans to use an immense amount of computing power on the Alps computer to develop industry-specific AI models for various fields including robotics, medicine, and climate science. This project will also explore fundamental questions surrounding human-AI interaction, ethics, security, and data privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collaboration extends beyond ETH Zurich and EPFL, involving around a dozen Swiss universities and research institutes. Over 75 professors across Switzerland have joined the initiative, alongside international researchers, to work on multilingual, cross-border open-source LLMs. Both ETH Zurich and EPFL are also part of ELLIS, a European network of AI excellence, further enhancing their global AI research collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETH Zurich and EPFL, two of Switzerland&#8217;s premier educational institutions, are combining their efforts to establish Switzerland as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) through the &#8220;Swiss AI 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