Bilateral AI

Save the Date for the BilAI Industry Day #2!

Mark your calendars for 25 November 2026, when the BilAI Industry Day #2 will take place at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg. More details will follow soon!

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BilAI Summer School 2026: Connecting Across Europe
Bringing together the BilAI community with Europe's largest broad AI summer school (ESSAI), this year’s edition offered opportunities for learning, exchange and international networking.
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AI Festival 2025 at TU Wien

How do we define well-behaved AI—and what does it take to achieve it in practice? At the BilAI Workshop on Day 2 of the AI Festival at TU Wien, BilAI explored how AI systems can be aligned with human values, regulation, and societal expectations.
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Inside Bilateral AI: The Research Modules

Bilateral AI brings together cutting-edge research to develop Broad AI by integrating sub-symbolic and symbolic AI approaches. Dive into our research modules to discover how we tackle key challenges—from reasoning and learning to adaptability and efficiency.
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About the project

The project “Bilateral AI” aims at lifting artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. Current AI systems are in a sense narrow. They center on a specific application or task such as object or speech recognition. Our project will combine two of the most important types of AI which have been developed separately so far: symbolic and sub-symbolic AI. While symbolic AI works with clearly defined logical rules, sub-symbolic AI (such as ChatGPT) is based on training a machine with the help of large datasets to create intelligent behavior. This integration, resulting in a Broad AI, is intended to mirror
something that humans do naturally: the simultaneous use of cognition and reasoning skills.

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BilAI at the Technology Talks Austria 2026

This autumn’s Technology Talks Austria focused on “Empowering Europe: Technological Leadership for a Resilient Future”, with BilAI Board Member Prof. Robert Legenstein among the experts discussing the future of research and technology in Europe.
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BilAI Summer School 2026 at ESSAI: Connecting with Europe's AI Community

Bringing together the BilAI community with Europe's largest broad AI summer school, this year's edition offered an exceptional environment for learning, interdisciplinary exchange, and international networking.
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A group photo of the participants, PhDs from the Bilateral AI Summer School and ESSAI 2026.

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Brain-Inspired AI: A new path to flexible, energy-efficient planning

An international team around BilAI key researcher Wolfgang Maass and BilAI PhD Yukun Yang has introduced a groundbreaking brain-inspired AI approach, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, that enables flexible planning while achieving remarkable energy efficiency.
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