SWISS AI Initiative
Leveraging the world's most AI-capable supercomputer
Alps by the National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) is the world's first national research infrastructure with over 10'000 GPUs of the new NVIDIA Grace Hopper superchip.
A research initiative to build capacities for advanced and large-scale AI systems for the benefit of society.
The initiative is co-led by ETH Zurich and EPFL.
Overview of research activities
Phase 1 runs until September 2024 and is backed with a compute commitment of over 10'000'000 GPU hours. The scientific leads are responsible for driving progress in their area together with the participating research groups. In total, there are five vertical activities for novel, domain-specific foundation models, and five horizontal activities to advance the foundations of LLMs and large-scale AI models towards trustworthiness and efficiency.
Verticals
Foundation model for sciences
Prof. Brbic, Prof. Schwaller,
Prof. Marinkovic
Foundation model for health
Prof. Rätsch, Prof. Salathé,
Prof. Fellay
Foundation model for education
Prof. Käser, Prof. Sachan
Foundation model for sustainability / climate
Prof. Mishra, Prof. Schemm, Prof. Hoefler,
Prof. Schindler, Prof. Tuia
Foundation model for ego-centric vision & robotics
Prof. Alahi, Prof. Pollefeys,
Prof. Katzschmann
Horizontals
Fundamentals of foundation models
Prof. Yang, Prof. He,
Prof. Zdeborova, Prof. Flammarion
Human-AI alignment
Prof. Ash, Prof. Gulcehre
LLM security, red teaming & privacy
Prof. Troncoso, Prof. Tramèr
Large-scale multi-modal models
Prof. Cotterell, Prof. Zamir
Tools & infrastructure for scaling
Prof. Klimovic, Prof. Falsafi
Advanced LLMs
Prof. Bosselut, Prof. Jaggi,
Dr. Schlag
Scientific Steering Committee
& Coordination
The Scientific Steering Committee is responsible for overseeing the Swiss AI project and decides on appointments of scientific leads for the activity areas, resources, and strategic direction. ETH Zurich and EPFL have both equal voting power in this committee.
Prof. Andreas Krause
ETH AI Center
Steering Committee
Prof. Martin Jaggi
EPFL
Steering Committee
Dr. Martin Rajman
EPFL
Coordination deputy
Prof. Ana Klimovic
ETH AI Center
Steering Committee
Dr. Joost VandeVondele
CSCS
StC Observer
Prof. Antoine Bosselut
EPFL
Steering Committee
PD Dr. Alexander Ilic
ETH AI Center
Coordination lead
Swiss AI Assembly
The Swiss AI initiative already involves over 70 professors from ETH Zurich, EPFL, CSCS, HES-SO, IDIAP, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, SDSC, USZ, UZH, and ZHAW.
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