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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks to our speakers: @classner.bsky.social, KatjaSchwarz, @michael-j-black.bsky.social , and Axel Sauer, and to everyone who came with questions and curiosity.
@maxplanckcampus.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social @andreasgeiger.bsky.social

Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · 4h

Great energy at last week’s Fireside Chat with Generative AI Founders! 👍
100+ people joined us for a lively, inspiring discussion with former Tübingen colleagues now building some of the most exciting ventures in generative AI.
Initiator and host: Peter Gehler.

Fireside chat: A group discussion with Peter Gehler, Professor for ML Engineering and Technology Transfer, Axel Sauer (Black Forest Labs), Katja Schwarz (SpAItial AI), Christoph Lassner (WorldLabs), and Michael J. Black (Meshcapade, also director of Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme). Image: Tübingen AI Center

Small groups of people discussing the event. (Image: Tübingen AI Center)

A captive audience sitting on rows of chairs, listening to the Fireside Chat (Image: Tübingen AI Center)

The Fireside chat partners in a group image (Image: Tübingen AI Center.)

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · 15d

#JobAlert #careers
Join our co-PIs at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen for an internship - apply now:

ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 27d

Our Principal Investigators Antonio Orvieto, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Maximilian Dax, Rediet Abebe, @shiweiliu.bsky.social, T. Konstantin Rusch, and @wielandbrendel.bsky.social are looking for motivated students interested in internships.
Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are so thrilled that this Fund has launched: Together with Ulrich Trautwein from the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, Matthias Bethge and @wielandbrendel.bsky.social have initiated the Hector AI + Education Future Fund!
👉 lnkd.in/eKcYcivH
@ellisinsttue.bsky.social

Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ein starkes Signal für die Bildungsforschung: Die Universität Tübingen erhält eine bedeutende Förderung von 6,2 Millionen Euro von der H.W. & J. Hector Stiftung. Ein herzlicher Dank an die Hector-Stiftung für ihr Vertrauen und die großzügige Unterstützung! Zur PM 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Forschende der Universität Tübingen und der University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill haben ein Positionspapier veröffentlicht, in dem sie die Bedeutung einer demokratischen Steuerung Künstlicher Intelligenz betonen uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #KI #AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #UNC #AIgovernance

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haoyuhe.bsky.social @haoyuhe.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚀 Introducing our new paper, MDPO: Overcoming the Training-Inference Divide of Masked Diffusion Language Models.

📄 Paper: www.scholar-inbox.com/papers/He202...
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13148
💻 Code: github.com/autonomousvi...
🌐 Project Page: cli212.github.io/MDPO/

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Aug 13

We’re excited to welcome @nicoleludwig.bsky.social as a Junior Professor for Climate, Energy & Machine Learning Systems!
Learn more: →https://tuebingen.ai/news/junior-professor-nicole-ludwig-joins-tuebingen-ai-center
@unituebingen.bsky.social @mwk-bw.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social

Shoulder portrait of Nicole Ludwig in front of a stone wall (photo: Cluster of Excellence: Machine Learning for Science / Elia Schmid)

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Aug 1

See also: tuebingen.ai/news/new-pri...

New Principal Investigators join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen

Three outstanding Principal Investigators will be joining the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, co-affiliated with the MPI-IS and the Tübingen AI Center.

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Aug 1

Looking forward to welcome our three new Research Group Leaders to Tübingen AI Center in September and October, respectively!

ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚀 Excited to soon welcome 3 new Principal Investigators: @maksym-andr.bsky.social, @maximiliandax.bsky.social, and @sahar-abdelnabi.bsky.social. They will also be co-affiliated with @mpi-is.bsky.social‬ & @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social as Research Group Leaders.
👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/new-...

New Principal Investigators join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 31

Who would like to reach out to young people, chat with pupils about AI's role in our lives, how it will change our lives in the future, and much more - why your research matters, for instance. AI researchers, apply now!
@unituebingen.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social

RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · Jul 30

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝘇𝘂 𝗞𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗶 𝗜'𝗺 𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁

Vom 𝟮𝟮. 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 bis 𝟭. 𝗢𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 geht es bei #ImAScientist darum, welche Rolle #KünstlicheIntelligenz in unserem Leben spielt, wie sie in Zukunft unser Leben verändern wird und um viele weitere spannende Fragen zur aktuellen Forschung rund um KI.

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 31

Such a cool idea to make science accessible for the general public!

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics @mpicybernetics.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 The first-ever Soapbox Science in Tübingen was a huge success!
11 women scientists took to the streets to share their research—engaging and accessible.
Our own Carolina Guidolin and Maydel Fernandez-Alonso were among the speakers.
💥 We’ll be back next year! #SoapboxScience #WomenInSTEM

Carolina Guidolin presents her research to a general public in a public square in downtown Tübingen.

Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎉 Congratulations to Lena Schlipf for receiving the 2025 Teaching Award from the Computer Science students in Tübingen!

👏 A well-deserved appreciation!
tuebingen.ai/news/teachin...

#AIeducation #TUEAI #ComputerScience
@unituebingen.bsky.social @andreasgeiger.bsky.social @philipphennig.bsky.social

Teaching Award 2025

Lena Schlipf Honored by Students

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Nadav Borenstein @nadavb.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you are attending #ACL2025, come and check out our cool poster on Wednesday at 11 am!

(Oh yeah, I forgot to announce that the paper got accepted to the main proceedings of #ACL2025, oops)

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Machine Learning in Science @mackelab.bsky.social · Jul 23

New preprint: SBI with foundation models!
Tired of training or tuning your inference network, or waiting for your simulations to finish? Our method NPE-PF can help: It provides training-free simulation-based inference, achieving competitive performance with orders of magnitude fewer simulations! ⚡️

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Hilde Kuehne @hildekuehne.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just a bit of cross-posting...

🚨 Nectar Track @ #GCPR2025 — Call for Submissions! 🧠📢

Have a top-tier paper in 24/25 at ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, PAMI, IJCV, etc.?
Share your work with the vibrant GCPR community!

🗓️ Deadline: July 28, 2025

🔗 Instructions: dagm-gcpr.de/year/2025/su...

dagm-gcpr.de

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 18

🛍️ Online or in-store, where do you shop for clothes?
Would you like to be assistend? In "KI verstehen", our expert Peter Gehler shares insights on AI shopping assistants and the tech shaping our buying experience
🎧 www.deutschlandfunk.de/ki-einkaufsb...
#AI #FashionTech #RetailInnovation #shopping

KI-Shopping-Assistenten: Einkaufen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz

Künstliche Intelligenz soll das Einkaufen personalisierter und zielführender machen. Wie KI-Assistenten Kaufentscheidungen und unser Einkaufsverhalten ändern.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 17

@kristinalaube.bsky.social

Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

Special thanks to Maria Pawelec (IZEW) for her powerful keynote on deepfakes & democracy!
@nuxoll.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social @wielandbrendel.bsky.social

More sessions to come!

#AI #education #newsLiteracy #medienkompetenz

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

Teachers, communicators & educators came together to discuss how we can support young people in navigating digital media—critically, confidently, and democratically.

In cooperation with Journalismus macht Schule, with support from ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS.

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

How can we teach news literacy when TikTok trends shift daily and deepfakes blur reality?

That’s what we explored at the first session of our Multiplier Roundtable for News and Information Literacy in Schools this week in Tübingen. 🚸🧠

A group of people, some of them at their laptop computers, sitting around a long table, listening.

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Tübingen AI Summer Poster Event 2025 last week was a great opportunity to study recent work from the Tübingen AI research community.
📸 See more:
👉 tuebingen.ai/news/tuebing...
Co-organized with @ml4science.bsky.social + ELLIS Institute Tübingen
@cgtyyldz.bsky.social

Tübingen AI Summer Poster Event 2025

On July 11, the Tübingen AI Center hosted the 2025 edition of the Tübingen AI Summer Poster Event

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here's a great opportunity to work with our experts on AI Agents in their tutorial in September: 🧑‍🎓

DAGM GCPR 2025 @gcpr-by-dagm.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚀 Curious about AI Agents?

Join us at #GCPR2025 in Freiburg (Sep 23–26) for a hands-on tutorial by Matthias Kümmerer & Peter Gehler on LangGraph, LangChain & Model Context Protocol (MCP)!

💻 Bring your laptop!

@tuebingen-ai.bsky.social

🔗 www.dagm-gcpr.de/year/2025/re...

#AI #LLM #Tutorial

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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Jul 15

A big milestone for us. Huge congrats to Bernhard, Daniel and team! The first comprehensive codebase for training RL self-driving agents with state-of-the-art performance on both CARLA 2.0 and nuPlan.

Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Jul 15

We have released the code for our work, CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards.

The repository contains the first public code base for training RL agents with the CARLA leaderboard 2.0 and nuPlan.

github.com/autonomousvi...

GitHub - autonomousvision/CaRL: [ArXiv 2025] CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards

[ArXiv 2025] CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards - autonomousvision/CaRL

github.com

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

This looks like fun, why not stop by on Monday evening and discover it with the family?

RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · Jul 16

#KI interaktiv – spielerisch entdecken, kritisch diskutieren im "Eckstein" in #Tübingen

📆 𝟮𝟭.𝟬𝟳., 𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬 𝗨𝗵𝗿

Alle KI-Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen:
Testet das KI-Escape Game & erkundet "New Visuals of AI" (digitale Ausstellung).
eckstein-tuebingen.de/programm/

@unituebingen.bsky.social

Vor einer Grafik mit blauen und orangefarbenen geometrischen Formen und schwarzen Linien auf hellgrauem Hintergrund steht in schwarzer Schrift "KI interaktiv – spielerisch entdecken, kritisch diskutieren. Montag, 21. Juli 2025 19:00 Uhr "Eckstein", Lange Gasse 16". Am unteren Bildrand sind folgende Logos: Universität Tübingen, RHET AI Center, KI Makerspace, Volkswagenstiftung.

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

Our experts at work, spreading their skills: Join them in September in Freiburg!

DAGM GCPR 2025 @gcpr-by-dagm.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚀 Curious about AI Agents?

Join us at #GCPR2025 in Freiburg (Sep 23–26) for a hands-on tutorial by Matthias Kümmerer & Peter Gehler on LangGraph, LangChain & Model Context Protocol (MCP)!

💻 Bring your laptop!

@tuebingen-ai.bsky.social

🔗 www.dagm-gcpr.de/year/2025/re...

#AI #LLM #Tutorial