NEWS AND EVENTS

Researchers from the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) and ETH Zurich have announced qblaze, a state-of-the-art quantum simulator that establishes a major milestone in quantum computing research. The new quantum simulator qblaze sets a new benchmark in quantum simulation by factoring the largest number to date using Shor’s algorithm on a […]

Researchers from INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, and ETH Zurich have introduced BrokenMath — the first test designed to systematically evaluate sycophancy in mathematical reasoning with large language models (LLMs).  BrokenMath exposes a key weakness in today’s most advanced AI systems: their tendency to confidently agree with users’ false statements — a […]

ObjectRelator, a research developed at INSAIT, institute of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” has been selected as a Highlight Paper at the upcoming ICCV 2025, one of the most prestigious conferences in artificial intelligence and computer vision. Only a small fraction of accepted papers are chosen for this recognition. The project is a result of […]

A team of INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” achieved a historic success by being one of only two teams to qualify for RoboArena – an international challenge for evaluating the latest AI models in robotics. The event was organized by researchers from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and other leading […]

INSAIT announces a landmark achievement: for the first time in history, a Bulgarian institution has a paper accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), a top research conference in robotics. The paper, titled “Generalist Robot Manipulation Beyond Action Labeled Data”, will be presented at CoRL 2025, taking place September 27–30 in Seoul, South Korea. […]

The first version of the model was downloaded more than 10,000 times in few months, while this new version adds many new important capabilities The Institute for Computer Science, AI, and Technology (INSAIT), part of Sofia University, Bulgaria, announces the release of MamayLM v1.0 – the first free, open and efficient Ukrainian Large Language Model […]

Prof. Thomas Zurbuchen, former NASA Science Director and now professor at ETH Zurich, is coming to Bulgaria at the invitation of INSAIT. INSAIT, part of Sofia University, is organizing the first international forum on Geospatial AI and Applications with Foundation Models – GAIA 2025, which will take place on September 24–25, 2025 in Sofia. Prof. […]

Prof. Bernhard Haeupler, faculty member at INSAIT and ETH Zurich, delivered a keynote talk at the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), one of the world’s premier conferences on algorithms. ESA 2025 is taking place this week in Warsaw, Poland, as part of ALGO 2025, the largest annual event in Europe dedicated to algorithms research (https://algo-conference.org/2025/esa/). […]

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (INSAIT) is the only Bulgarian organization featured in the strategic document “From promise to progress: First year in office”. The document is part of the 2025 State of the Union address by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, presented […]

On September 10, 2025, at the Granite Hall of the Council of Ministers, the new scholarship recipients of the four-year EXPLORER (EXcellence Program in technoLOgy and REseaRch) Program of the Institute for Computer Science, AI and Technology (INSAIT) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and its Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics were officially presented. Six […]

INSAIT, part of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” has received a new $150,000 gift from Google to advance research in multimodal generative AI. With this latest support, Google’s total contributions to INSAIT now exceed $6 million, underscoring its continued recognition of INSAIT as a world-class AI organization. The funding will support doctoral researchers in multimodal […]

INSAIT is co-organizing the Physics-IQ Challenge at ICCV 2025, part of this year’s Perception Test Challenge, which will take place on October 19, 2025, in Hawaii, USA. The Physics-IQ Challenge introduces a new benchmark aimed at evaluating whether generative models can produce physically plausible videos in complex real-world scenarios. INSAIT researchers Prof. Luc Van Gool […]