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Strategically investing in applied language technology

AI Sweden’s new strategic program Applied Language Technology will strengthen Swedish competitiveness and ensure that we develop powerful Swedish language models that benefit our society. Magnus Sahlgren, Head of...

Pilot study for federated language models in Swedish

22 February 2021

AI Sweden is joining the National Library of Sweden and Scaleout Systems for a pilot on federatively trained language models. This will be the first federative, large-scale modelling of artificial neural networks for...

New report: AI essential to curb the changing climate

10 February 2021

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and our societies need to adapt urgently. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the main tools for powerful social change. Still, little...

Revisiting Data Factory Day and the grand opening of Edge Lab

9 February 2021

At the end of January, we invited all partners to listen in on a full three hours demonstrating how you can make the most of the Data Factory. The Data Factory and its newly opened Edge Lab play a key role in AI...

Join AI Sweden’s Infrastructure Expert Group

8 February 2021

The ecosystem of storage and compute infrastructure is growing across Sweden. This is very positive and an important foundation to develop data factory solutions and accelerate the use of AI nation-wide. As a response...

AI Sweden welcomes Conny Svensson as new Head of AI Transformation

8 February 2021

We are very excited to welcome Conny Svensson as our new Head of AI Transformation. Before joining AI Sweden, Conny worked at one of our partner organizations, CGI as Head of AI for the last three years and before...

Startup partners have tripled since launch of AI Sweden’s Startup Program

3 February 2021

AI Sweden is now counting 28 AI startup partners after recently welcoming 18 new partners. This number has tripled since the launch of the Startup Program in May 2020.

Grand opening of Edge Lab

27 January 2021

The AI Sweden Edge Lab was launched on the 27th of January 2021 in partnership with Zenseact, HPE, Volvo and Ericsson. It is a world-unique opportunity to explore distributed learning on the edge in collaboration with...

AI for gender equality

21 December 2020

The AI for gender equality hACTathon was a success and something we will definitely see more of!

The Space Data Lab enables innovation

16 December 2020

Earlier this fall, the space data hackathon “Copernicus Hackathon” invited teams to make use of data from the Space Data Lab and other sources, to solve challenges related to climate change, life on land and COVID-19....

How AI Sweden’s Data Factory enabled data scientists to leapfrog the drug production process

14 December 2020

Earlier this fall, AI Sweden and the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca challenged experts in machine learning to find a solution to avoid toxic preprocessing of cell cultures when testing new drugs. The winning...

Highlights from AI Sweden Partner Week

11 December 2020

Recently, this year’s edition of AI Sweden Partner Week took place online, and we were thrilled to see so many of you joining us for a fantastic three days of seminars and discussions! One of the biggest takeaways was...

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