Tomorrow
Academia

Lausanne, Switzerland

EPFL

EPFL pairs neurotechnology and open-model work — Europe's most credible attempt at building frontier models under public governance.

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2 key findings0 timeline milestones2 sources to follow

Key findings

  1. 2023

    A digital bridge between brain and spinal cord

    Courtine, Bloch et al.

    A wireless brain–spine interface restored natural walking to a participant with chronic tetraplegia, with recovery persisting after the implant was off.

    Why it matters here · The clinical evidence that BCI companies in the tracker point to for functional restoration, not just cursor control.

  2. 2025

    A fully open, publicly governed LLM

    EPFL, ETH Zürich, CSCS

    A multilingual model trained on the Alps system with open weights, open data provenance and documented opt-out respect.

    Why it matters here · The European counter-model to closed frontier vendors, and the strictest openness bar in the catalog.

What to follow

EPFL AI Center

Research lab · Continuous

Coordinates the Swiss open LLM effort with ETH Zürich on the Alps supercomputer.

Neuro-X Institute

Research lab · Continuous

Brain–machine interfaces, neuroprosthetics and spinal stimulation.

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Tomorrow. (2026). EPFL — key findings and research feeds [Research tracker entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-13, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/academia/epfl
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-academia-epfl,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {EPFL — key findings and research feeds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/academia/epfl}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-13}
}