Since the Cyber Valley research consortium was founded at the end of 2016, the partnership between academic institutions and private sector companies has promoted the development of a thriving ecosystem in southwestern Germany. Each year, new and multidisciplinary initiatives have been added to the mix, and the Stuttgart-Tübingen region keeps gaining momentum as a European hotspot for research and innovation in the fields of machine learning, robotics, and computer vision.
- The AI Breakthrough Hub
- New Cyber Valley research groups and new university chairs in machine learning, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and computer vision at the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen
- The IMPRS-IS doctoral program
- The Tübingen AI Center – the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Competence Center for AI and Machine Learning
- The “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
- Two new Clusters of Excellence at the University of Stuttgart: “Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture” (IntCDC) and “Data-Integrated Simulation Science” (SimTech)
- The European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
- The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Tübingen
- The University of Stuttgart’s new “Intelligent Systems for a Sustainable Society” profile
- Arena 2036 on the University of Stuttgart campus, a research factory that promotes the hardware-based knowledge production of the future
- Germany’s first master’s degree program in machine learning at the University of Tübingen
- The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and Tübingen
- The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen
- The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft’s newly established AI innovation center Learning Systems in Stuttgart
- New Bosch and Amazon research centers in Tübingen: Bosch plans to build an AI Campus that will host 700 AI researchers by 2022, and Amazon will expand its research center to 200 employees in the coming years
- Two Bosch “Industry on Campus” professorships
- The Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in Renningen
- The Cyber Valley Start-up Network
- The Cyber Valley Investor Network
- The Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
- The Federal AI Competition (BWKI)