Evidence-backed European AI register
IDSIA — Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for IDSIA — Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- public research institute jointly affiliated with USI (Università della Svizzera italiana) and SUPSI
- Ownership
- public research; originally endowed by the Dalle Molle Foundation
- Founded
- 1988
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
IDSIA USI-SUPSI is based in Lugano-Viganello, Switzerland
Country-level basis is explicit, but not headquarters wording; kept as non-EU country evidence only.
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Model listings
- LSTM and foundational sequence-model research (Hochreiter and Schmidhuber, 1997) — architectures rather than shipped models
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- n/a
- Licence
- n/a — published research
- Release
- 1997
- NLP @ IDSIA research models (financial-domain LLM applications, with the Swiss banking industry)
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- multilingual
- Licence
- varies (research)
- Release
- 2019–2026
Profile note
Historically the single most consequential AI lab in this segment: Jürgen Schmidhuber's group at IDSIA co-invented LSTM (with Sepp Hochreiter, who now runs NXAI in Linz), the architecture behind a generation of speech and translation systems and the direct ancestor of NXAI's xLSTM. Today it runs applied NLP/LLM research with the Swiss banking sector rather than training foundation models. No models of its own to serve, no pricing.