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Linz, Austria
Joined November 2019
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A look back at the LIT AI Workshop 2026 🤖
Members of the LIT AI Lab met at the OIC (jku.at/en/lit-open-innovatio…) at JKU Linz to share their progress over the past year, covering topics from LLMs and AI agents to reasoning, optimization and algorithmic fairness.
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Austria's new high-performance supercomputer MUSICA was officially inaugurated on Friday. Distributed across Vienna, Linz, and Innsbruck, the system provides expanded computing resources for AI, quantum technologies, and data-intensive research.
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A long-standing mathematical conjecture has just been challenged by AI. 🧠📐
OpenAI contributed to a breakthrough on Paul Erdős’ Unit Distance Problem, showing new ways of thinking about mathematical discovery.
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A researcher from the ELLIS Unit Linz just made Austria’s biggest AI exit. 🇦🇹🌍
Johannes Brandstetter, co‑founder of Emmi AI and ELLIS faculty, is joining forces with Mistral AI to build a European industrial AI hub. 🚀
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Super excited to share that six papers of the ELLIS Unit Linz were accepted to ICML 2026! ✨🏆
🧪 Contrastive Geometric Learning Unlocks Unified Structure- and Ligand-Based Drug Design: lnkd.in/d2EiUzHd
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🌍WIND: Weather Inverse Diffusion for Zero-Shot Atmospheric Modeling: lnkd.in/du7mqt2H
💾 ANTiC: Adaptive Neural Temporal In Situ Compressor: lnkd.in/dvTbVTur
Huge congratulations to everyone involved! 🎓🌟
@Lisa_Schnecki @sohvi_luukkonen @friedo91 @ml_hoedt
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ELLIS Unit Linz & LIT AI Lab retweeted
🎉 25 ELLIS Units have been successfully extended!
Following our five-year reapplication process, we celebrate the sustained excellence these Units bring to European AI research. Congratulations to all! 👏
📖 Get more details: ellis.eu/news/25-ellis-units…
On ORF, Prof. Günter Klambauer breaks it down: Europe’s three big legal pillars keep patients safe—while making hospital-ready AI a tougher climb.
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In a recent episode of the ORF format “Auf ein Wort” Prof. Sepp Hochreiter discusses why the fundamentals of AI should be taught in schools – and why, despite its benefits, AI can also make us “mentally lazy.”
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ELLIS Unit Linz & LIT AI Lab retweeted
xLSTM Distillation: arxiv.org/abs/2603.15590
Near-lossless distillation of quadratic Transformer LLMs into linear xLSTM architectures enables cost- and energy-efficient alternatives without sacrificing performance.
xLSTM variants of instruction-tuned Llama, Qwen, & Olmo models.
ELLIS Unit Linz & LIT AI Lab retweeted
Impermanent: A Live Benchmark for Temporal Generalization in Time Series Forecasting
Only 4pages paper, but good ones. Time series foundation models evaluated PROSPECTIVELY. No data leakage possible.
P: arxiv.org/abs/2603.08707
We took part in the Think Beyond Summit 2026 by the Austrian Science Fund in Vienna. Great discussions on excellence in research, interdisciplinarity, and responsible AI.
Thanks to FWF for an excellent platform and to all participants for the exchange!
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Congratulations to Prof. Hochreiter on being welcomed as a member of the Leopoldina’s Class I (Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Engineering). Well‑deserved recognition. Announcement: leopoldina.org/en/newsroom/d…
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Prof. Günter Klambauer comments in on the hype around AI agent systems such as OpenClaw.
He explains the shift from generative AI to task-executing agents and highlights current security risks. 🌐
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🎙️ Interview insight with Günter Klambauer
In a recent ORF interview, Professor Klambauer discusses the increasing use of AI in the production of children’s books.
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Our new high-performance GPU server is now up and running.
Funded by the Federal State of Upper Austria, the system with NVIDIA B300 GPUs is the most powerful single-node GPU server for AI research in Austria. ⚡
A strong addition to AI research at JKU.
Sepp Hochreiter, Head of LIT AI Lab, comments on the EurIPS conference in this FAZ guest article:
He highlights Europe’s growing visibility in AI research and the role of ELLIS in strengthening the community.🌍
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Great news for AI research at JKU!
Upper Austria invests €22.5M to strengthen AI & quantum science, supporting the ELLIS Unit Linz and the LIT AI Lab.
This commitment boosts new projects, talent, collaborations & innovation made in Austria 🇦🇹
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