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From Lab to Market: Spin-out OptiKonf wins Funding
14.04.2026
BilAI key researcher Max Heisinger and his co-founder, both rooted in the JKU ecosystem, have secured fresh funding for their startup OptiKonf — an important boost, as Heisinger explains in the interview.
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BilAI Key Researcher Dan Alistarh receives ERC Grant for Private AI on Your Device
25.03.2026
BilAI key researcher Dan Alistarh has been awarded his second European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant, for his project PersonalAI,which aims to bring fully private, personalised text generation to everyday devices.
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From a summer school idea to an ESWC paper: Teaching AI to “repair” Wikidata
19.03.2026
How a group project at the International Bilateral AI PhD Summer School 2025 evolved into full research on collaborative knowledge graphs.
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Think Beyond Summit 2026: Focus on Austria’s Clusters of Excellence
23.02.2026
The third Think Beyond Summit, hosted by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), focused on the power of collaboration and highlighted the research of the FWF Clusters of Excellence.
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Sepp Hochreiter named Member of the Leopoldina
20.02.2026
Sepp Hochreiter, AI pioneer from Johannes Kepler University Linz and BilAI Head of Research, has been welcomed as a member of Class I for Mathematics, Natural, and Engineering Sciences at the Leopoldina. (Article in German)
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