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Research & Innovation

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At the forefront of artificial intelligence

At AI Sweden Research & Innovation, we shape the future of Artificial Intelligence. Here, our partners collaborate in the development of their capabilities in parallel with developing high-value AI solutions and infrastructure for creating AI.

Our current focus areas are Natural Language Understanding, Edge Learning (mobility, health, Space, infrastructure), and AI & Security.

The brightest minds in AI research and infrastructure 

Engage with top-of-the-line infrastructure and some of the brightest minds in infrastructure and AI research. We continuously have top students and engineers from our partners working with us at AI Sweden.

Cross-sector exchange

The collaboration of great minds and diverse backgrounds is designed to provide you and your organization with what is needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving landscape.

An edge from speed and boldness

The “secret sauce” enabling us to stay at the forefront of development is based on our ability to quickly form projects, co-locate great minds, and provide access to advanced infrastructure; Research & Innovation help partners gain a competitive edge.

Our infrastructure is built on a dual-structure

Consortiums 

These consortiums provide platforms and context for leading developers, data scientists, students, and researchers from several sectors, including mobility, NLU, health, space, finance, and AI security. They enable a collaborative environment with infrastructure developers to explore joint focus areas.

Infrastructure

Cloud

Data

Hardware

Software

When it comes to AI projects, you want to make sure that they scale. You want to test close by where you are, where you have people and equipment. Then you want to distribute that maybe globally to all the other environments that you have. That is one of the biggest winning themes of being here at the Edge Learning Lab.

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Marie Eriksson Johansson
Solution Architect, Dell Technologies

Stories from Research & Innovation

In our cross-sector collaborative environment, our work can uncover new and unexpected synergies. Projects are often included in one of our consortiums, which enables them to draw on progress made in adjacent domains. For example, you may find development done for the healthcare domain applicable to the space domain. Findings can then be shared and spread throughout the AI Sweden ecosystem through the work of AI Sweden’s Adoption and Ecosystem teams.

Birger Moëll

Uppsala University lecturer Birger Moëll joins AI Sweden in new research role

2026-05-19
AI Sweden is expanding its language technology team by recruiting Birger Moëll into the role of Senior Research Scientist. He will work to help strengthen Sweden's and Europe's position in large-scale...
Jessica Rosencrantz och AI Sweden

National and European AI Capability on the agenda as EU minister visits

2026-05-13
EU Minister Jessica Rosencrantz (the Moderate Party) visited AI Sweden to discuss how Sweden and Europe can secure future welfare and competitiveness through artificial intelligence. During the visit...
Landskap

New initiative to strengthen Swedish cybersecurity

2026-04-23
As part of the efforts to bolster Sweden’s operational readiness against cyber threats, AI Sweden is announcing the next phase of its national initiatives for AI security. In collaboration with the...
LeakPro workshop

LeakPro 2 expands successful AI privacy assessment tool

2026-03-18
LeakPro 2 aims at creating a tool that not only will quantify the risk that a model could leak sensitive data, but also the impact such a leakage could have. The work builds on the successful results...
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OpenEuroLLM takes the next step for European AI sovereignty

2026-03-11
It has now been a year since the launch of OpenEuroLLM, one of Europe's most ambitious AI initiatives. By uniting 20 leading research institutions and companies, the project has, during its first year...
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Column: Insights from the world’s premier AI conference

2026-01-23
In early December 2025, top researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) gathered for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). The conference is one...
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OpenEuroLLM secures strategic access to multiple supercomputers: A milestone for European language models

2025-12-18
OpenEuroLLM is set to develop high-performance language models for Europe. The major European collaborative project has now been granted 10 million GPU hours on Europe’s most powerful supercomputers....
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The role of talent programs as AI reshapes the job market

2025-12-11
As the pace of AI development accelerates, the focus in the job market is shifting from volume recruitment to strategic, specialized expertise. In an AI Sweden Podcast episode, the discussion centered...

A growing number of AI Sweden partners are engaging directly within the Research & Innovation and the Technology Infrastructure, finding that this hands-on approach significantly fast-tracks their AI development journey.

As a startup, developing tools for ‘edge learning’, specifically federated learning, having an infrastructure like the Edge Lab is invaluable. It is somewhere we can test our software in real production-like environments and collaborate with some of the best enterprises in Sweden on this.

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Andreas Hellander
CEO and co-founder, Scaleout Systems AB

Our focus areas

Edge Learning

Edge learning is an approach in AI that shifts data processing closer to the source—enabling faster, more efficient, and privacy-conscious solutions. Today, edge learning is a core component of AI and a foundational element in several of AI Sweden's ongoing projects.

Cars connected as an illustration of federated fleet learning
As the focus on policies and regulations concerning data sharing, security and storage intensifies...
Federated Learning In Banking
Money laundering poses a significant societal threat as it enables criminals to utilize illicit...
Zenseact Edge AnnotatationZ Dataset
AI Sweden, Zenseact, RISE, Lund University, Chalmers Industriteknik, and Univrses, in collaboration...

Natural Language Understanding

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) will be key for making the most of AI and enables tasks as wide-ranging as using voice assistants at home to a reliable automatization of certain social services. To accelerate innovation, development of applications, and implementation in this area, NLU therefore constitutes one of AI Sweden’s strategic initiatives.

OPEN EURO LLM project co-funded by the European Union
Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to...
TrustLLM preview
TrustLLM will develop European large language models (LLMs) on an unprecedented scale, trained on...
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GPT-SW3 is the first large-scale generative AI model for the Nordic languages. It was developed in a...

Secure AI

As part of AI Sweden’s Edge Learning Consortium and in collaboration with Dakota State University, our focus on AI security aims to provide developers and users of Edge Learning Infrastructure the understanding to develop robust and secure AI solutions.

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SAFE-CARE develops AI-driven red-teaming of code and agentic healthcare assistants in a Sweden–USA...
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Artificial intelligence is already embedded in critical infrastructure like healthcare, energy...
Fazeleh Hoseini and Johan Östman
LeakPro 2 is a tool/framework for assessing and mitigating privacy risks in AI models. It combines...
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Honeypots are decoy computing systems that mimic real environments to trick attackers into...

AI in space

Edge learning has the potential to revolutionize the development of AI for space applications and AI Sweden’s focus is to explore technologies that can be used for high-impact use cases.

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The trend of mega satellite constellations with advanced sensors that produce enormous amounts of...
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The National Space Data Lab 2.0 (SDL2.0) is a collaborative project led by AI Sweden, RISE, Luleå...

Contact

Mats Nordlund

Mats Nordlund

Director of Research & Innovation
+46 (0)70-398 08 37
Helena Theander

Helena Theander

Head of Operations Research & Innovation
+46 (0)70-928 40 74
Max Petersson

Max Petersson

Senior Tech Lead

Team

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Robert (Bobby) Bridges

AI & Security Innovation Leader
+46 (0)70-003 25 35
Tommy Schönberg

Tommy Schönberg

Head of Defense Innovation
+46 (0)70-830 71 21
Fazeleh Hoseini

Fazeleh Hoseini

Research scientist
+46 (0)73-305 69 22
Muhaddisa Barat Ali

Muhaddisa Barat Ali

Research Scientist
Edvin Callisen

Edvin Callisen

Research Engineer - Decentralized AI
+46 (0)72-155 88 39
Jonas Lind

Jonas Lind

Head of research, NLU, PhD
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Mauricio Muñoz

Project Lead and Senior Research Engineer
+46 (0)70-383 50 10
Danila Petrelli

Danila Petrelli

Senior Data Lead
Max Petersson

Max Petersson

Senior Tech Lead
Laurian Lamba

Laurian Lamba

System architect
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Ted Henriksson

Systems Engineer

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Research & Innovation drives AI innovation through a unique approach, exemplified by the Edge Learning Consortium. We've compiled key information in a brochure, download for an overview:

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