NEWS AND EVENTS

 “INSAIT achieved the unimaginable” is one of the most frequently repeated phrases in the coverage of INSAIT’s historic success, appearing both in the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) report and in dozens of other media outlets in Bulgaria and internationally. Winning Bulgaria’s first ERC Advanced Grant, worth 2.5M EUR, in engineering and natural sciences is arguably […]

This remarkable achievement propels Bulgaria into the ‘Champions League of Science.’  Sofia, June 2026 Bulgaria’s first-ever ERC grant in Natural Sciences and Engineeringhas been awarded to Dr. Bernhard Haeupler, a researcher at INSAIT, an institute of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The grant, worth €2.5 million, is among the most prestigious in the world and […]

We are delighted to share that five INSAIT researchers have been recognized as CVPR 2026 Outstanding Reviewers! Presented by the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) — one of the world’s leading forums for computer vision and AI research — these distinctions recognize scientists who make exceptional contributions to maintaining the quality and rigor […]

Historic achievement for a Bulgarian university student! Congratulations to Aleksandar Yanev, who became the first Bulgarian university student in history to co-author a paper accepted at CVPR, the world’s leading computer vision conference, which took place in Denver, USA, this year. Alex is a third-year student at Sofia University and part of Explorer, INSAIT’s special […]

Borislav Petrov, Executive Director of INSAIT, participated in the discussion “Digital Transformation: Productivity, Governance, and Inclusion”, held as part of the regular meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Varna, just days after the G7 Summit. During the discussion, he highlighted the connection between the world-class research conducted at […]

INSAIT has received prestigious recognition at ICML 2026, one of the world’s premier AI conferences. The paper BrokenMath: A Benchmark for Sycophancy in Theorem Proving with LLMs has been awarded a Spotlight distinction at this year’s conference, to be held in Seoul, South Korea. Out of nearly 24,000 submissions to ICML 2026, only around 2% […]

INSAIT hosted the extended Bulgarian national team for the 30th Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, taking place in Romania this week. During the visit, Kristian Minchev, a PhD student at INSAIT, taught two lectures on Geometry as part of the team’s preparation for the Olympiad. He also presented INSAIT, followed by a short panel discussion with […]

Maria Drencheva from INSAIT spoke yesterday at Digitalk 2026 about one of the most important challenges facing AI today—safety and security. Digitalk is an annual conference focused on technology, innovation, and digital transformation in Southeast Europe. Maria discussed the opportunities and risks of agent-based AI, the threat large language models pose to online anonymity, their […]

INSAIT is proud to share its major presence at CVPR 2026 with 17 accepted papers! CVPR is the leading research conference in computer vision and AI, with over 12,000 participants in Denver, USA this year! INSAIT’s booth (#440) became a vibrant hub of activity. Hundreds of researchers, industry experts, and students have stopped by to […]

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 Chat in Ukrainian, and direct API access to the LLMs, enabling faster AI adoption by Ukrainian organisations!  Our prior Ukrainian LLM release last year, MamayLM […]

SPEAR-1 is a robotics foundation AI model built by INSAIT that achieves state-of-the-art performance while using 20x less robotics data. A first version of SPEAR-1 was featured in WIRED back in October 2025. The key breakthrough behind SPEAR-1 is a new pre-training approach which enables learning from robotics data, but also from non-robotics 3D data […]

We are delighted to introduce FireScope AI: the first AI system for predicting wildfire risk at high-resolution and with human-friendly explanations! We are also releasing the first public high-resolution long-term fire risk map for Europe at firescope.ai! FireScope AI comes amid a growing risk of wildfires in Europe. According to the European Environment Agency, forest […]