Teaching humanoid robots not only to see like humans but also to understand what they see is an immensely complex challenge because in the real world, everything is constantly changing. Jan Eric Lenssen wants to teach machines to see, giving them a visual understanding modelled on human perception. On 22…
The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) has awarded their 2026 Distinguished Service Award to MPI-SWS Scientific Director Derek Dreyer. The award citation reads as follows: Derek Dreyer has set an exemplary standard of service within the PL community. Throughout the years, Derek has served in almost every…
The new UN report on the environmental impact of AI has reignited the debate over data center resource consumption. The focus is on energy demand, water consumption, and CO₂ emissions during the training and operation of generative AI systems. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maaß, head of the DFKI research division Smart…
Paris/Berlin, 18 June 2026 – The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) are taking their existing partnership to the next level: today the two leading research organizations signed an agreement at Vivatech in Paris to establish…
The Soofi consortium presents initial performance results for "Soofi S," the first building block of a European AI model family. The project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of the IPCEI-CIS / 8ra initiative, aims to develop high-performance foundation models on European infrastructure, offering…
