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My impressions of the Open Source AI 2026 Conference, organized by CH Open in Bern.

This article by Prof.

Some impressions and my slides from this year's winter congress of the Swiss Digital Society, at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich.

The Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) conferences are a regular roadshow of the data science community at EPFL, producing a highly charged program in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence through various formats over the years.

On Monday, a close knit group of international experts from around the world met in Lausanne to advance open and collaborative AI development, the proceedings of which I had the privilege to support and contribute to in a workshop setting.

A summary of an aiLights webinar hosted by Sabine Wildemann on 22.01.2026 (Recording, Slides).

The post describes the process of installing and using Apertus MLX builds on an Apple MacBook.

This experiment is an AI response to blog post #117.

Interaktives Technikmuseum in Derendingen Erleben Sie die rasante technologische Entwicklung im grössten interaktiven Technikmuseum der Schweiz.

The festive season at the coworking space was marked by a long-awaited delivery: a first edition Reachy Mini (Lite) desktop robot by Pollen Robotics & Hugging Face, which we ordered five months ago in July.

The Swiss AI SME Circle was launched by the National AI Initiative (SNAI) in collaboration with the National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and swissICT.

DINAcon is the annual Swiss conference for Digital Sustainability ("DIgitale NAchhaltigkeit"), organized by CH Open and partners, that took place again in Bern yesterday.

Presentation from my keynote at Hackathon on Crisis Applications, an event organized by the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zürich on October 30, 2025.

This is a report on the Swiss {ai} Weeks hackathon in Liebefeld area of Bern, interspersed with visuals, providing detailed results and follow-up references to complete sources, galleries and hashtags.

Continues from my previous post, where some history of the development of open source AI projects was followed by discussion of the new Apertus frontier model from Switzerland.