NEWS AND EVENTS

INSAIT has six accepted papers at the prestigious ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) 2025, taking place this week in New Orleans, USA. This marks the first time in the 35-year history of SODA that a Bulgarian institution is represented with accepted publications at this leading scientific forum. SODA is one of the top three […]

INSAIT is proud to announce its participation in the upcoming VIP Roundtable Discussion: Bridging the Gap in the EU AI Act – From High-Level AI Principles to Technical Compliance. This prestigious event will take place at the AI House in Davos on January 21, 2025, and is set to convene an elite group of global […]

Antonio Milev, Ivan Tonchev, and Petar Milev have been selected as fellowship holders in the “Logic and Algorithms” graduate program at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) of Sofia University. The program awards individual scholarships valued at 50,000 BGN for a duration of 18 months, funded entirely through private donations. The fellowship aims to […]

Burgas Municipality is the first in the country to introduce BgGPT – a cutting-edge Bulgarian artificial intelligence that will be used to serve citizens and businesses in the coastal city. This was announced during a meeting between Mayor Dimitar Nikolov with Prof. Martin Vechev, founder of INSAIT, and Borislav Petrov, Executive Director of the Institute. […]

INSAIT is proud to announce its participation in this year’s NeurIPS conference in Vancouver, taking place from December 10-15, 2024. Visit us at Booth No. 47 to learn more about our groundbreaking work and explore exciting opportunities in AI research and development. We are actively inviting applications for tenure-track and tenured faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and […]

Researchers and entrepreneurs from INSAIT and ETH Zurich have launched LogicStar AI (https://logicstar.ai/), a new deep-tech startup, which is building fully autonomous agentic AI that helps teams maintain their software.  Founding Team The founding team behind LogicStar AI is star-studded and includes the founders of DeepCode.ai (now Snyk Code) which is currently delivering more than […]

Starting today, the chat application BgGPT (https://bggpt.ai/) with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, created by INSAIT, an institute at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” is available for use. It can be accessed at bggpt.ai and is free for all Bulgarians to use. In BgGPT, you can ask any kind of question – from solving problems in various […]

SOFIA, BULGARIA—November 19, 2024—INSAIT (Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology) announces the release of three state-of-the-art AI models, a 2.6 billion, a 9 billion and a 27 billion parameter model, targeting the Bulgarian language. These models demonstrate unprecedented performance in Bulgarian, outpacing much larger ones such as Qwen-72B and Llama3-70B, as well as […]

INSAIT scientists achieved a breakthrough in the area of graph algorithms and were awarded a best paper award at FOCS’24, a top conference in algorithms and theory! The work is a collaboration between researchers at INSAIT, ETH Zurich and Princeton. The best paper award was received amongst 133 accepted papers at FOCS’24. The result is […]

The release includes the first mapping of the EU AI Act’s principles to actionable technical requirements, a freely available open-source framework, and the first compliance-centered evaluation of public generative AI models. Sofia / Zurich, October 16, 2024. ETH Zurich, INSAIT, and LatticeFlow AI announce the release of the first evaluation framework of the EU AI […]

INSAIT is excited to be part of IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious robotics conferences! Come and meet our scientists at Booth #10 from today to Friday and learn more about the exciting opportunities we offer – including PhD, Postdoc, Research Scientist, and Faculty positions in Computer Vision […]

We’re thrilled to share that Prof. Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University) gave an invited lecture as part of the INSAIT Tech Series live in Sofia next week! Prof. Kolter is one of 9 members of OpenAI’s board together with Sam Altman, and a member of its safety and security committee. Prof. Zico Kolter is one […]