Awards, papers, releases, media and events. Every notable milestone since 2009.
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Sep
At FACIS Connect '26, Prof. Dr. Alexander Löser joined industry leaders from Airbus, Schaeffler, and the International Manufacturing-X Council for the panel discussion "Industrial Collaboration in the Digital Age", focusing on European digital sovereignty and the SOOFI project.
Sep
Tom Röhr presented SOOFI, a sovereign open-source German foundation model, at DevDay — covering its hybrid Mixture-of-Experts + Mamba-2 architecture, trained on 512 GPUs across 64 nodes over 51 days by an 11-partner consortium including Merantix Momentum. A live demo showed the model writing and self-correcting a Conway's Game of Life implementation. Röhr also joined a panel discussion on sovereign AI at the same event.
Sep
Tom Röhr delivered the opening keynote at Haystack Europe 2026 (https://haystackconf.com), the Search Relevance Conference, over two days. The talk built on themes from an earlier Merantix presentation and included a dedicated section on the specialization of LLMs.
Sep
Tom Röhr spoke at DFKI about multilingual training datasets used for the Soofi model.
Sep
Alexander Löser participated in a panel discussing the sovereignty of AI intelligence made and consumed in the EU, in the context of IPCEI-AI and the SOOFI project.
Jun
Alexander Löser spoke to the German Judges Association (Brandenburg) about AI in Justice and the Soofi project.
Jun
Alexander Löser joined a panel at FACIS Connect 2026 in Berlin discussing Soofi and modular LLMs.
Nov
DATEXIS participated in the first international workshop on pretraining and posttraining sovereign foundation models, with Tom Röhr leading a session on reasoning post-training.
May
Jan Frick and Dennis Fast presented at the Medizin Informatik Initiative 2025 workshop in Leipzig.
Jan
Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Dr. Kentaro Inui (MBZUAI) visited DATEXIS.
Jan
Alexander Löser joined a Handelsblatt panel on digital business models in Düsseldorf alongside Jörg Bienert (President, KI Verband) and Hanbing Ma (ERGO).
Jan
Dr. Benjamin Winter successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Analysis and Domain-Transfer of Transformer Language Models in Limited Data Environments," at Kiel University (CAU).
Jan
Alexander Löser led a workshop with the BMBF Platform Learning Systems on AI, LLMs, policies, and media.
Jan
Alexander Löser gave the laudatio for the Digital Gipfel Startup Award at Connecting the Dots 2025 (BMWK).
Sep
Conor Fallon presented DATEXIS's advancements in clinical outcome prediction at the SHIFTHUB DemoDay in Berlin.
Jul
Shonan Seminar Empowering Local Open Source LLMs with Alexander Löser (organizer), Paul Grundmann, and 29 experts from top AI-organisations from four continents.
May
Paul Grundmann and Jens-Michalis Papaioannou gave a talk at a workshop with the SMITH Consortium and University of Leipzig (Medizininformatik Initiative).
Apr
Alexander Löser and Paul Grundmann gave a talk, "Clinical Embeddings for Patient Representations," at the BiFold Workshop.
Mar
Alexander Löser gave a talk on applications in medicine for large language models at the KI Kongress hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS).
Jan
Alexander Löser gave the heibrids lecture "Representing Patients with Large Language Models" at Einstein Center Digital Future.
Dec
Jens-Michalis Papaioannou and Alexei Figueroa gave a talk on prototypical networks at the ECDF Graduate School Hebridis.
Sep
Alexander Löser gave the keynote "Deutsche Sprachmodelle in der Medizin: Das nächste Wort" at the Berliner Chirurgische Gesellschaft.
May
Alexander Löser, Paul Grundmann, and Michalis Papaioannou gave a talk at a joint seminar with UKB Darmstadt (Iryna Gurevych) and the NLP Group at LMU München (Hinrich Schütze).
Apr
Betty van Aken presented "Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Diagnosis Prediction" at the NLP Summit Healthcare.
Apr
Alexander Löser gave a talk at the L3S Research Seminar (Wolfgang Nejdl).
Jan
Betty van Aken successfully defended her PhD thesis at the University of Hannover.
Jan
Alexander Löser served as a consultant for BMWK research programs regarding large language models.
Jan
Rudolf Schneider successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Stuttgart.
Jan
Alexander Löser gave a talk at L3S Hannover on representing patients and predicting clinical outcomes.
Dec
Alexander Löser gave a talk for the BMWK titled "Skalierbare und Vertrauenswürdige KI" (Scalable and Trustworthy AI) in December 2022.
Jan
Three BMBF projects (AI4SCM, More4Less, AI in Patient Care) and one EU project (AI in Radiology) were accepted for funding in 2022.
Jan
Betty van Aken gave the talk "Erkennung von Hassrede mit Deep Learning Verfahren" at the event "Hassrede im Netz - Digitalen Antisemitismus erfassen."
Jan
Betty van Aken gave the talk "Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Clinical NLP" at AI Innovations 2022.
Jan
Betty van Aken gave the talk "Supporting Healthcare Professionals With NLP" at the Open NLP Meetup.
May
Alexander Löser joined a Hochschullehrerbund panel together with Bavarian Minister Bernd Sibler and NRW Minister Prof. Dr. Pinkwart.
Mar
Konstantina Lazaridou defended her thesis "Revealing Hidden Patterns in Political News and Social Media with Machine Learning," co-supervised with Felix Naumann from HPI.
Jan
Alexander Löser gave a talk at Acatech about the different skills needed for running AI projects with SMEs.
Jan
A new BMBF project, "KI in der Pflege - Sturz/Delir/Medication" (AI in elderly care), was launched together with Felix Biessmann and DATEXIS.
Jan
Tom Oberhauser was invited to the DFKI Research Colloquium to give a talk on "Bi-Encoders for Small-Data Named Entity Linking."
Jun
A web talk on explainability and transparency of AI methods was held from 14:00-16:00.
