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Applications for Host Country 2025 Now Open! Each year, a new host country brings unique perspectives and expertise, enriching the spirit of our AI House Davos. In our inaugural year, Switzerland’s tradition of innovation and neutrality played a pivotal role in shaping our initiative. As we look forward to AI House 2025, we invite applications for the next host country. By embracing a multi-stakeholder approach, the chosen host country will shape the dialogues in AI research, investment, regulation, and broad industry adoption. This diverse infusion ensures our discussions are robust and inclusive, reflecting the varied strengths of each host country. To learn more about partnership opportunities and the application process, join our information session at the end of July. We encourage candidate countries to apply with delegations from industry, academia, and government. Submit your interest now: https://lnkd.in/dVqCQ2H2 #AIHouseDavos #Davos2025 #ArtificialIntelligence #AISafety #AIDevelopment #events ETH AI Center ETH Zürich Merantix

The global discussion on AI continues! After an extraordinary inaugural year, we are thrilled to announce that AI House will return to Davos 2025. As AI continues to develop, influencing every aspect of our lives, we have seen significant progress and milestones over the past year. We couldn’t be more thrilled about the opportunity to come together once more with entrepreneurs, policymakers, industry leaders, and other thought leaders to discuss our current state and future directions. Join us as we explore the evolving landscape of AI and its impact on our world. More informations to follow soon. In the meantime, click below if you want to get involved and shape AI House 2025 with us: Partnerships: https://lnkd.in/eFVE554d Host Country Application: https://lnkd.in/dVqCQ2H2 #artificialintelligence #Davos2025 #machinelearning #aisafety #AI #AIHouseDavos

The medicine revolution is here 🧬 I’ll tell you the top 6 things you need to know about the crossroad between BioTech and AI! Last week, we were privileged to hear from two speakers who are at the forefront of blending AI with biotech during the #Women’sAIBreakfast at the Merantix AI Campus: Jelena Ivanovska, PhD, CSO at Exazyme, and Noha Radwan from Inceptive. Moderated by Nicole Büttner,Founder & CEO of Merantix Momentum, this BioTech edition explored the diverse career journeys of Jelena and Noha, exploring their transitions from academia to startups and the valuable lessons they've learned along the way. Here are the top 6 highlights from the conversation: 🔍 AI in Biotech: We explored how AI is set to revolutionize biotech by speeding up processes, such as extrapolation in protein expression. 🔍 Startups vs. Big Pharma: The competitive edge of startups lies in their speed and innovative mindset. Big companies are often hindered by boundaries, bureaucracy, and hierarchy, which completely hinders innovation. 🔍 Investor Relations: Tips for pitching to investors, especially those without a scientific background, were shared. Simplifying scientific concepts, showcasing data, and visual prototypes are crucial. Most importantly, finding the right investors with relevant backgrounds is key. 🔍 Regulatory Issues: The discussion also touched on the challenges of regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and patient data protection. While progress has been slow, there is hope for a more streamlined process post-COVID. 🔍 European Health Data Space: Noha emphasized their in-house data production to validate design algorithms and the need for both high-quality and voluminous data. Jelena explained their focus on generating algorithms that can work with low-regime data, reflecting the reality of their clients' data limitations. 🔍 Startup Learnings: Jelena highlighted the importance of a trustworthy team and continuous idea validation, while Noha underscored the need for transparency, direct communication, and flexibility in the startup journey. Thanks to Noha, Jelena, and Nicole for the openness and insights, and to Inceptive for sponsoring this session! We look forward to continuing to create such inspirational spaces during the Women’s AI Breakfast sessions, to build and grow together. Stay tuned for future editions and share this group and community with friends and colleagues who might find it interesting 🤝 #AI #Biotech #WomenInTech #Innovation #TechLeaders #FutureOfMedicine #CancerResearch #BiologicalSoftware #ProteinDesign #HealthData #Startups #BigPharma #HealthcareInnovation #DataScience #ScientificResearch #HealthcareTechnology #STEM #TechCommunity #aicampusberlin #aicampus

How is AI transforming retail and e-commerce? From customer experience to in-store automation and marketing innovation.. 🎥 Watch this video to find out! This week, we tried answering this question at the Campus during the event “Retail Tomorrow” hosted by zenloop, where we joined four conversations: 🎙 The AI Disruption: Transforming Ideas into Reality at Lightning Speed. Ali Naqi Shaheen, CTPO at zenloop, kicked off the event, highlighting how AI has dramatically transformed the CX space and shared core principles for leveraging AI to reinvent any aspect of business. 🎙 “Shine a light” on physical retail: Use existing cameras to understand stores in real-time. Philipp Müller 🚀, CEO of Signatrix, provided a comprehensive overview of the challenges retailers face today. He emphasized how understanding in-store behavior can drive store automation and boost customer profitability through targeted actions. 🎙 How AI-powered immersive experiences will change eCommerce. Jaime Gomez, Co-founder & CEO of Looks, captivated us with an analysis of Gen Alpha and Gen Z behaviors and presenting compelling AI-driven use cases in e-commerce, such as: AR makeup tools, fashion discovery and wardrobe optimization. 🎙 AI Innovations in Marketing: Enhancing Engagement and Performance. Jonathan Heuser, Design & Marketing Lead at GLS/NXT, wrapped up the session by introducing GLS/NXT, GLS’s private consumer business innovation hub. He showcased some of their innovative initiatives, including a custom GPT for creative production that automates SEO copywriting and AI-based eye tracking, and the GLS Spotlight advertising platform, which displays advertisements during parcel tracking. A big thank you to all the speakers and organisers for their insights. The future of CX with AI looks incredibly promising! 🎥 If you want to know more about it, here’s the youtube video: https://lnkd.in/epj5XcCb #RetailAI #EcommerceInnovation #CustomerExperience #AIDrivenRetail #RetailTechnology #AIinMarketing #RetailAutomation #GenZShopping #RetailFuture #CXTransformation #AITrends #RetailTech #DigitalRetail #AIInsights #AIstartups #artificialintelligence

We are seeing some truly exciting developments and opportunities in the #AI and #Robotics space. Our co-founder and GP Rasmus Rothe has written down our current assessment of technological breakthroughs in the field and their implications for potential applications here: https://lnkd.in/eszixJ2K #artificialintelligence #venturecapital #ideation #machinelearning

🎥 Video alert - How can multimodality and efficient data integration transform your AI projects for richer interactions and optimised workloads? Last week, we hosted an event with SingleStore on how to build a real-time Multimodal RAG application in minutes. Here’s a brief recap of what the speakers discussed: 🎙 Sushrut Chafadker, Co-founder & CTO at topshelf He explained topshelf's strategy of using a social network for users to share and review products, combined with AI-driven recommendations to provide personalised suggestions based on user interactions. He addressed challenges in AI, such as outdated information, understanding user preferences, and hallucinations, and highlighted the role of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in providing real-time context. Additionally, he discussed technical aspects like context optimisation, behaviour or optimisation, and the infrastructure for deploying and scaling AI models, including cloud and self-managed variants. 🎙 Michael Englert, Principal Solution Engineer at SingleStore He discussed the practical aspects of deploying AI models, emphasising the benefits of optimising context size to save costs and improve speed. He explained the separation of compute and storage in their setup, highlighting the flexibility in choosing compute size and regions in AWS, Azure, or GCP, and mentioned the inclusion of auto-scaling. Michael also talked about using notebooks to interact with databases via Python and SQL and stressed the importance of flexible access to AI models to adapt to rapid innovations. He concluded by discussing AI trends, including the importance of specialised on-device models for certain tasks. 🎥 Interested? Here you can watch the video: https://lnkd.in/d5F8dvg4 Thanks to the entire team for bringing such cool event: Kevin Jones Sam Wallis Philipp Schoeck Jonah Oswald Fee Hermann 何菲 #AI #DataIntegration #MultimodalAI #RAG #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #machinelearning #LLM #ScalableAI #CloudComputing #AITrends #AIInfrastructure #AIModels #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #AIOptimisation #TechEvents

By being the Events Manager at the Campus, I get all the juicy AI insights 😏 and I can give them to you.. This time we got "AI use cases in production with RAG" with full house at the Merantix AI Campus by Weaviate, exploring the latest in RAG and other AI trends. There were two talks, startup demos and lots of networking between developers, data scientists, AI innovators, and enthusiasts from Berlin's tech community. Now to the good stuff! Here are some of the key points talked about during the event: 🎤 Reducing Generative AI Hallucination with RAG - with Olivier Huber, Senior Partner Solution Architect at Aiven. He gave an overview of Aiven’s open-source databases supporting AI, addressed LLM hallucinations and regulatory challenges and provided solutions, explained RAG and the use of operational data layers and vector databases, and advocated for a multicloud approach to deliver real-time, governed data to AI. 🎤 Multimodal RAG/Advanced RAG Techniques - with Zain Hasan, Developer Advocate at Weaviate. He highlighted the importance of integrating multimodality for advanced AI learning, explained Multimodal Embedding Models (contrastive learning) and search techniques, talked about how to train LLMs to interpret images (visual instruction tuning), and showcased real-world applications, eg. in e-commerce recommender systems. Big shoutout always to Marion Nehring Philip Vollet Edward Schmuhl (also for the cool visuals I stole 😉) Femke Plantinga Victoria Slocum & Co. for organizing such cool meetups! 🎥 Watch the full recording here: https://lnkd.in/eFK4MmU5 #AI #RAG #AITechnology #MachineLearning #DataScience #OpenSource #TechTalks #AIInnovation #MultimodalAI #TechCommunity #BerlinTech #Networking #GenerativeAI #StartupDemos #AITrends #LLM #Multicloud

Join the last GenAI event at the Campus before the summer season comes ☀️ This week we will host a soirée all about #GenAI with AWS, designed for AI startups to explore the latest AWS tech, along with getting to know other AI startups and their founders to get first-hand learnings. Come for some drinks, bites and chats with AI experts, VCs, and successful founders in a panel discussion led by Tobias Halloran, EMEA Head of AIML BD & Strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and get insights from the AI startup ecosystem, funding strategies, and best practices for building successful AI businesses. 🎟️ Register here https://go.aws/3RdFsES #GenAI #Startups #AIstartups #ml #ai #aievents #aicampus #generativeai

Are you a startup looking to connect with industry giants? or an industry player eager to engage with cutting-edge AI innovations? This event is for you! 👇 Join us at the "Industry Meets AI Start-Ups" event at our Campus. This event is designed to foster connections between AI start-ups and industry giants. Get valuable insights from industry players as they discuss their current strategies and challenges in data and AI. Hosted by Merantix Momentum, this event is a must-attend for those eager to explore the intersection of AI and industry and to network with pioneers and innovators in the field. You will get to meet with Fraunhofer FIT, Festo, and HANNOVER MESSE. Join us at 15:30 to get to know a bit more about Merantix Momentum, followed by a rotating keynote session from Festo & Fraunhofer FIT, interact with the speakers during the Q&A, and stay for drinks and networking. For the keynote sessions you will get insights from: 🎤 Dr. Christina Gillmann, Co-Head of Data Management Group at Fraunhofer FIT 🎤 Alfons Riek, Vice President Technology and Innovation Group at Festo 🎟️ Register here to secure your spot https://lnkd.in/ddNq-zNQ 👉 Join our ecosystem here: https://lnkd.in/ebF8hpGi

🎉 A quarter, full of milestones and achievements, wraps up with our Merantix AI Campus Summer Party! It was great to see so many of our Campus residents last Wednesday to welcome the much-awaited summer season, after having had such an active and successful past few months. Between all the events hosted, fundraising, product launches, papers published, and more, we can attest that the community drives itself forward 🚀 One of the best things about our community is the fantastic interactions and knowledge swaps that happen. The summer party gave an opportunity for us to come together, engage in meaningful chats and share the latest advancements of AI with each other. Big thanks to all the ones who joined us, your involvement demonstrates the strength and vibrancy of this community. Hope you enjoyed the hot dogs, currywurst, and cocktails! 🍹 🌭 Become a part of our community, and keep an eye on our upcoming events here https://lnkd.in/eHiGeq3E