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June 4, 2026

INSAIT unveils next-generation Ukrainian AI chat and open LLMs

We are delighted to announce a major AI release by INSAIT for Ukrainian citizens and institutions. It includes: next generation MamayLM v2.0 Ukrainian LLMs, a state-of-the-art public and free AI…
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June 2, 2026

SPEAR-1 is coming to CVPR 2026!

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May 29, 2026

Announcing FireScope AI: The First Public Wildfire Risk Map for Europe

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May 27, 2026

INSAIT Among Europe’s Top Institutions at CVPR 2026

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May 26, 2026

What is behind BgGPT 3.0 and what does it signal for the future of local and soverign AI?

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May 24, 2026

Happy Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic literature!

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May 23, 2026

INSAIT researchers were among the speakers at Google Cloud Day

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May 21, 2026

The Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Executive Director of INSAIT discussed the possible regulations and the growing integration of AI into all areas of public areas

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May 21, 2026

Recognition in AI: five INSAIT researchers have been awarded the ICML Gold Reviewer Award 2026!

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May 20, 2026

INSAIT takes the stage at Google Cloud Day!

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May 19, 2026

With over 2,800 applicants for summer internship at INSAIT, only 15 top students get the opportunity to study and work in Sofia

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May 12, 2026

Deputy Prime Minister Pulev and Minister Vassilev at INSAIT: The institute is a strategic project for Bulgaria

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May 11, 2026

INSAIT is representing Bulgaria at a leading forum in algorithms and theory – ICALP 2026

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April 21, 2026

INSAIT Introduces EgoNight: A Benchmark for Egocentric AI Vision in Low-Light Conditions

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April 8, 2026

INSAIT and Netflix Develop AI Model That Realistically Removes Objects from Video

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March 30, 2026

INSAIT Receives Record Interest for Its SURF Summer Research Program

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March 26, 2026

INSAIT unveils a new generation of AI: precision models for business and an upgraded BgGPT chat for all citizens

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March 24, 2026

INSAIT Represents Bulgaria at EACL 2026 with Three Cutting-Edge NLP Papers

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March 19, 2026

The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency Adopts AI by INSAIT

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March 16, 2026

INSAIT with 8 Accepted Papers at ICLR 2026, Ranking #1 in Eastern Europe

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March 4, 2026

INSAIT paper in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering highlights AI–energy challenge

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February 24, 2026

INSAIT positions Bulgaria amongst the world leaders in algorithms at the leading research conference

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February 18, 2026

INSAIT Launches CVPR 2026 Workshop on Agentic AI for Visual Media

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February 11, 2026

INSAIT and Leading Global Institutions Organize a Workshop at CVPR 2026

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February 4, 2026

INSAIT Opens Applications for SURF 2026 Summer Research Internship Program

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February 2, 2026

Google awards $500,000 to INSAIT!

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January 12, 2026

INSAIT Introduces DiffSim Trinity: A New Paradigm for Autonomous Driving Based on Differentiable Simulation

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December 22, 2025

Bulgaria’s INSAIT ranks 13th in Europe, overtaking universities in Oxford, London, Amsterdam and Berlin

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December 16, 2025

INSAIT Releases the World’s Largest Open-Source 3D Dataset and Benchmark for Language-Aware AI Systems

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December 3, 2025

With Over 1,000,000 BGN in Donations, INSAIT Launches EXPLORER 2026 – a unique AI and Deep Tech bachelor program

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November 21, 2025

INSAIT Researchers Advance Video AI with StateSpaceDiffuser

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November 14, 2025

ERC President Prof. Maria Leptin on a Key Visit to INSAIT to Discuss Frontier Science and Innovation

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November 10, 2025

INSAIT and the National Audit Office Launch an AI-Powered Public Procurement Audit Platform

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November 4, 2025

INSAIT With Three Accepted Papers at IROS 2025, One of the World’s Leading Robotics Conferences

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October 28, 2025

Google Deepens Support for INSAIT with New $1M Contribution

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October 23, 2025

INSAIT unveils SPEAR-1 – Europe’s first open robotic foundation model trained on 3D data

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October 22, 2025

INSAIT Showcases Bulgaria’s AI Excellence at ICCV 2025

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October 21, 2025

New Benchmark “Physics-IQ” Challenges AI Video Models’ Understanding of the Physical World

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October 20, 2025

INSAIT Featured at ICCV 2025 Workshop on Foundation Data for Industrial Tech Transfer

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October 16, 2025

INSAIT with a leading presence at ICCV 2025, one of the world’s top AI forums

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October 13, 2025

INSAIT and ETH Zurich develop qblaze – a state-of-the-art quantum simulator

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October 10, 2025

BrokenMath: New Test Reveals Widespread Sycophancy in Mathematical Reasoning by GPT Models

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October 7, 2025

INSAIT Research Selected as Highlight Paper at ICCV 2025

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October 3, 2025

Breakthrough for INSAIT at the Leading Global AI and Robotics Conference – CoRL 2025

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September 29, 2025

Historic Breakthrough for Bulgaria and INSAIT: First-Ever Bulgarian Paper Accepted at CoRL 2025

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September 25, 2025

INSAIT releases the first open and efficient multimodal Ukrainian LLM

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September 24, 2025

Invited by INSAIT: Bulgaria welcomes NASA’s longtime Science Director who led the Perseverance rover mission and the James Webb Space Telescope

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“INSAIT’s mission is to transform the world through excellence in science, research, and education. At INSAIT, we believe an immersive and inspiring environment, which encourages human creativity, curiosity-driven exploration, and freedom of thought, is paramount to shaping the true thought leaders of tomorrow who invent stunning technologies that change the world and capture the human imagination.”

Prof. Martin Vechev
Founder and Scientific Director of INSAIT

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World-leading professors and researchers form the supervisory and advisory boards of INSAIT.
Prof. Virginia Vassilevska Williams Theory and Algorithms, Sloan Fellow
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Prof. Greg Morrisett Programming Languages, ACM Fellow, Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech
Prof. James Larus Computer Systems, ACM Fellow
Prof. Tom Henzinger Verification and Theory, ACM Fellow, President of IST Austria
Prof. Eran Yahav Programming Languages and Machine Learning, Allon Fellow
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Prof. Martin Vechev Programming Languages and Artificial Intelligence, ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Award
Prof. Srdjan Capkun Computer Security, ACM Fellow
Prof. Andreas Krause Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, ETH AI Center Director
Dr. Slav Petrov Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Senior Research Director

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