AI Austria monthly: June'24 Update
Deloitte AI report on Austrian digital future, AI Austria's partnerships and events, OECD study on AI jobs, interview with Clemens Wasner, GenAI Community kickoff, recent developments and more...
Is Austria missing the chance to lead in AI? Stay updated with the latest in AI from Austria, including key insights, partnerships, and upcoming events.
🚀 Latest Developments
✨ Deloitte AI Report 2024 - Austrian companies making the leap into the digital future
AI is playing an increasingly important role in the Austrian corporate landscape – but we are still a long way from widespread adoption. What are the biggest challenges currently? Are companies even open to invest in a competitive, technological future?
And ultimately, what does it take for broad acceptance? The new Deloitte AI report answers these and other questions. » check out the full report
🏔️ A few more days to go: T[AI]ROL – Where Data Science Meets the Alps!
» Join us for a day of engaging talks and networking opportunities
✨ UNIVIE CONNECT on June 21st! Advancing AI Together
Practical challenges and real-world applications drive research, while academic insights and breakthroughs fuel corporate innovation. Such partnerships are vital for creating innovation in AI. It was clear for us at AI Austria that we will support this event on June 21st, 2024, organized by the University of Vienna and weXelerate. UNIVIE Connect creates a space for exchange needed for advancing AI. Interested companies send an application via Email to the contact addresses provided. » Read more
📰 AI Austria in the Press: “Austria missed the chance”
In a recent interview with Horizont.at AI Austria chairperson and EnliteAI CEO Clemens Wasner discussed Austria's position in the global AI landscape. Clemens highlighted Austria's strengths in AI research, particularly in language processing models led by Sepp Hochreiter's team at JKU Linz, but noted significant gaps in foundational AI research and education. He emphasized the need for a comprehensive national AI strategy and substantial funding to enhance Austria's competitiveness.
» Read the full interview here.
🧠 GenAI Community Kickoff Event | September 3, 2024
Join us as AI Austria, Fraunhofer, and Infineon kick off the LLM/GenAI Community on September 3, 2024, from 18:00 to 20:30 at the Infineon Hub in Vienna. The event will feature keynotes and networking on generative AI, covering topics such as domain-specific chatbots, risk management, reliable AI outputs, and company-wide AI innovation processes. This event is perfect for companies and research institutes looking to leverage GenAI.
» Save the date and for more details and registration, visit GenAI Community Event.
🏥 Why social insurance wants to invest over 50 million euros in AI projects
Austria's ITSV is investing over 50 million euros in AI to enhance social insurance services, focusing on areas like faster reimbursement processes and digital transformation of health and insured data management. The initiative includes projects like digital claims processing for outpatient services and implementing AI in dental imaging, ensuring high data security standards are met. This investment aims to improve efficiency and service quality for the insured. » full article
🧠 Vienna Co-Creation Workshop AI
Vienna, the center of Austria's AI ecosystem, hosted a co-creation workshop by the Vienna Business Agency, waff, and WWTF. We highlighted the importance of Vienna as a first adopter of Austrian AI innovations, boosting interdisciplinary exchange, investing in AI skills, and clarifying Digital Humanism with actionable projects. Excited to see these insights shape the future of AI in Vienna! Thanks to the organizers for a great event!
🛠️ OECD study: AI Won't Take Most Jobs
The OECD's new study on The Impact of AI on the Workplace reveals that AI is transforming labor markets worldwide. Despite fears, job levels remain stable with AI shifting tasks rather than eliminating jobs. Demand for specialized AI skills is driving new job creation, while AI improves job quality by reducing tedium and enhancing safety. However, it also brings challenges like increased work intensity and the need for continuous learning. » Dive into the full report to see how AI is reshaping the future of work here Link
🖌️ Canva Connect Event | June 14th
Join Canva's first Connect event in Europe on Friday, June 14th, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Kulturhaus Brotfabrik: Ankersaal. Hear from Co-Founder Cameron Adams on AI and creativity, explore the latest AI developments, and network with professionals, businesses, designers, and creators. Canva's AI center in Vienna makes them a key AI Austria stakeholder. Don't miss this opportunity! » Register here.
✨ Generative AI News ✨
At WWDC 2024, Apple will reportedly integrate major AI features into its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems. These features, branded as “Apple Intelligence,” focus on practical applications for daily use. Some expected features include improved photo editing, greater Siri control over apps, custom emoji generation, quick recaps of notes and messages, and automatic transcription of voice memos. Additionally, iOS 18 will introduce customizable icons and interface updates.
Microsoft’s upcoming “Recall” feature for AI PCs will be opt-in rather than default. This feature captures screen snapshots to allow users to search past computer activity while addressing privacy concerns.
The tech industry opposes California’s SB 1047 bill, which would require AI companies to report safety tests and add a kill switch for advanced models. The bill passed the Senate and awaits a General Assembly vote in August.
NewsBreak, a news aggregator app, published at least 40 false stories, many of which were AI-generated. The app rewrites licensed content from news outlets using AI-powered web scraping.
Meta (formerly Facebook) will test an AI assistant for businesses on WhatsApp. The AI will handle tasks like selling products through chat, answering questions, and creating targeted ads.
🌏 Asia spotlight
Kuaishou, TikTok's largest competitor in China, has introduced the Sora Killer Kling AI, a cutting-edge video creation tool. The created videos look fantastic, and users can already register for the waiting list at Kling AI.
Unique3D is making waves with its AI-driven 3D model generation, sparking questions about whether AI has finally solved 3D modeling. Check out the hugging face demo here and learn more on their website.
ByteDance releases Hyper-SD. This brings high-quality image generation with Stable Diffusion down to a single inference step.
Four start-ups lead China’s race to match OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai have been valued at between $1.2bn and $2.5bn in the past three months.
TikTok launched a new “Symphony” AI suite for advertisers, introducing tools like the Creative Studio to generate videos, Assistant for scriptwriting, and Ads Manager to optimize videos.
Microsoft, Beihang University release MoRA, an efficient LLM fine-tuning technique.
📆 Upcoming Events
Jun 10 WIEN! AI-zapft is! K-I werd narrisch!
Jun 12 Ailleron Connect Vienna
Jun 12 T[AI]ROL Meetup Innsbruck
Jun 13 AI Summit Kitzbühel 2024
Jun 14 Canva Connect: Vienna
Jun 17 Das Ultimative Stakeholder Survival Training für Data (Science) Leads
Jun 19 JETZT KI Bootcamp
Jun 19 Spezialtag AI-Act
Jun 21 UniVie Connect: Advancing AI Together
Jun 21 Navigating the AI Journey - From Inception to Excellence
Jun 25 IMAGINE24 - Digitale Technologien neu denken
Jun 26 Künstliche Intelligenz in Hochrisikobereichen
Jun 27 KI Con - Convention für künstliche Intelligenz
Jul 04 Care Beyond Skin Hackathon für Teenager
Jul 04 Business Angel Summit 2024
👉 For more information on upcoming events head over to our community calendar.
🧑💻 Featured Jobs
Once a month we feature selected openings from our job board in this section.
Ads Quality Rater - German (Austria) at Welocalize
Senior Researcher Data Engineering at scch Software Competence Center Hagenberg
Computer Vision Specialist (w/m/d) Vienna Salzburg anywhere at play TRACKS
Technical Co-Founder: Senior Machine Learning/Computer Vision Specialist at Play tracks
CTO/Technical Co-Founder at SciPub+
👉 Check out further listings at our Job Board