NEWS AND EVENTS

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” together with leading international research institutions, announces the release of SceneSplat-49k, the largest open-source collection of high-quality, complex 3D scenes in Gaussian Splatting format, along with SceneSplat-Benchmark, a comprehensive evaluation benchmark for Language Gaussian Splatting. SceneSplat-49k comprises 48,856 reconstructed indoor and outdoor scenes, of which 12,061 scenes […]

For the first time, alongside companies such as Amazon, SiteGround, and Man Group, Google is joining as a program sponsor. The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), part of Sofia University has announced the new edition of EXPLORER, the program designed to retain and cultivate Bulgaria’s young technological talent. Participants receive a […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” announced StateSpaceDiffuser, a new diffusion-based world model that achieves substantial improvements in spatial and temporal consistency, has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025 – one of the world’s leading conferences in artificial intelligence, taking place this December in San Diego, USA. Modern video diffusion models often struggle to […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) hosted a key official visit by Prof. Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC is Europe’s premier organization for funding frontier, high-risk, high-reward research, with more than €16 billion allocated for the 2021–2027 period to support breakthrough scientific advances across disciplines. […]

The technology has the potential to make audits up to four times faster Today in Sofia, INSAIT – the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – and the Bulgarian National Audit Office launched Odis, an intelligent AI assistant designed to support public procurement auditors. The pilot project […]

Researchers from the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, took part in the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) – one of the world’s premier forums in the field of robotics. This year’s edition was held in Hangzhou, China, and […]

INSAIT is pleased to announce a new $1 million USD fund from Google, helping us deepen our commitment to open and inclusive AI research and innovation in Central and Eastern Europe. This latest support includes funding to advance INSAIT’s research mission, cloud compute resources to accelerate advanced AI projects, and investment in local outreach initiatives […]

The model achieves state-of-the-art performance with up to 20 times less robotic data, marking a breakthrough in scalable and data-efficient robot learning. INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” has announced SPEAR-1 – the first open robotic foundation model developed in Europe, achieving state-of-the-art performance with up to 20 times less robotic training data. […]

INSAIT made a strong impression at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025, one of the world’s most prestigious events in artificial intelligence and computer vision. This year’s edition gathered nearly 7,000 participants from academia, industry, and research institutions across the globe. With 14 accepted research papers, Bulgaria – represented by INSAIT – stood […]

A new benchmark, Physics-IQ, developed jointly by INSAIT and Google DeepMind under the leadership of Saman Motamed, PhD student at INSAIT, has attracted wide attention across the global AI research community following its presentation at ICCV 2025. The study represents a major step toward assessing and advancing the physical reasoning capabilities of current generative video […]

On the opening day of ICCV 2025 – one of the world’s leading conferences in artificial intelligence and computer vision – Dr. Jan-Nico Zaech, Research Scientist at INSAIT, delivered a keynote lecture at the workshop “Foundation Data for Industrial Tech Transfer.” In his talk, Dr. Zaech presented a new approach to developing robotic artificial intelligence […]

With a 14 accepted papers and a booth next to tech giants such as Google, Waymo, Meta, and Sony, INSAIT is positioning Bulgaria as a leading AI destination The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” marks a major milestone at ICCV 2025 – one of the […]