As the days get shorter, year-end events are in full swing - from community roundtables to international conferences.

🚀 AI Austria news

🤝 A Thank You Note from the AI Austria Board

Thank you for your ongoing support and interest in our activities. Your engagement is why we do this. We believe AI is fundamental to Austria’s future prosperity, both economically and socially. We finally managed to

Our mission is to demystify AI and connect people with knowledge. We aim to enhance Austria’s AI competitiveness and foster a vibrant community for collaboration.

AI Austria is a non-profit organization. All of us, including the board (pictured here), community leads and volunteers, invest our own time. Our pledge is to serve the ecosystem, not to use this platform as a personal vehicle. We are an open platform. If you share this vision, we invite you to contribute, join our meetup groups, follow-us on LinkedIn, or simply drop us a line if you want to start a new initiative!

🤝 GenAI Community “Frontiers Edition” Focuses on Substance

Our GenAI Community gathered on October 22nd for its “Frontiers Edition,” generously hosted by NTS and co-organized with Red Hat. Over 120 experts convened, cutting through the hype to focus on substance. The evening featured deep dives into real-world challenges and solutions: NXAI showcased its TIREX time-series model, Otera detailed strategies to overcome GenAI weaknesses, Red Hat explored quantization, and AIM presented a sustainability-focused agent. Moderated by Ruben Hetfleisch, the fully booked event underscored the community’s mission: open, collaborative exchange to build value-creating AI in Austria. A special thanks to NTS for providing the excellent venue and support.

📺 Online Sessions with Austria Wirtschaftsservice

Together with aws, AI Austria is launching a new webinar series on AI. In five sessions, we’ll dive into real-world experiences, current developments, and practical challenges - with insights directly from developers, companies, and projects.

Next session: 13.11.2025 AI-Stacks im Gleichgewicht: Open Source, Proprietary, Cloud & lokale Anbieter im richtigen Mix » free registration

📺 Partner Event: Moving Forward Conference 2025: AI x HUMAN – The New Era of Synergy!

The Moving Forward Conference 2025 in Vienna on November 21st explores how human-AI collaboration can be responsible, sustainable, and economically successful. Featuring top experts like Samrah Kazmi (RESRG, NYU) and a new study on AI’s impact in Austria, this conference offers keynotes, panels, and practical workshops on the latest AI trends and future skills. As a partner, AI Austria offers a 20% discount on tickets with the special code MFCAA ! » get your tickets and redeem the code

🇦🇹 Latest developments

🇪🇺 Three Austrian Startups Among Europe’s Top 100 AI Companies

Sifted, the Financial Times–backed tech publication, has named Emmi AI (Linz), Otera (Innsbruck, formerly DeepOpinion), and Blackshark.ai (Graz) among Europe’s Top 100 AI Startups. The list spotlights fast-growing, independent, B2B AI companies founded since 2018 with valuations below $1B.

Vienna-based Speedinvest also made the cut, ranking 15th among Europe’s top AI investors, with portfolio companies including ARX Robotics (#18), Emmi AI (#35), and SpAItial (#60). London leads the European AI landscape with 33 startups on the list, followed by Paris (13) and Berlin (12). » full ranking

📰 RTR Study: AI Trust Gap Mirrors Competence Gap

Austrians are deeply skeptical of AI in news media. A paper from Austria’s media regulator (RTR), published October 14, 2025, confirms a critical trust gap. The “AI and Media Trust 2025” study (authored by FH St. Pölten & FH Burgenland) found over 70% of Austrians view AI in news negatively. This trust gap seems to correlate to the 70% competence gap, as most feel unable to judge AI’s role. People distrust what they don’t understand. This finding highlights that building trust isn’t just about marketing; it’s about closing this competence gap through education and transparent, human-accountable systems. » Link to the full study (PDF)

🇦🇹 Austria’s AI Potential: Lacking Courage, Not Talent

On October 22nd, the Senat der Wirtschaft (Senate of Economy) hosted “Austria as an AI Location,” featuring State Secretary Zehetner, IBM, and Fraunhofer Austria. The discussion highlighted the planned Vienna “AI Gigafactory” and reached a clear consensus: Austria’s main hurdles aren’t technology, but data chaos and a lack of clear implementation strategy. The core challenge, as summarized by the Senat, is that Austria has the know-how and talent. What’s missing is the courage and decisiveness to execute. » Event Page & Media

📚 Austrian Startup Story.one Launches AI Publishing Platform

Vienna-based startup Story.one made waves ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair with its new “Human-Centric AI Publishing” platform. StoryOne 2.0 enables authors to transform existing content—like podcasts, articles, or research—into a high-quality, fact-based non-fiction book in about an hour. The approach keeps the human as the author and curator, using AI as a co-editor for structuring and refinement. Backed by Thalia and Libri, the platform aims to get more knowledge and new voices into book form, faster. » Link to the announcement

✨ Generative AI News

👉 OpenAI Signs US$38 Billion Cloud Deal with AWS for Nvidia Chips
OpenAI has agreed a seven-year, US$38 billion infrastructure deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to gain access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs for AI model training and deployment. The deal marks a major step in scaling AI compute capacity and diversifying away from exclusive reliance on Microsoft.

👉 Alibaba unveils WAN 2.5 – China’s next leap in generative video AI.
The model turns text or images into 1080p clips with lifelike motion, voice, and music - rivaling Google’s Veo 3.1 and OpenAI’s Sora 2. It marks another massive performance surge from China in multimodal video generation.

🌍 Europe spotlight

🧑‍💻 European Open Source going out of fashion

US-made open AI models have lost their lead to Chinese ones. Since March 2025, downloads of Chinese open models -driven largely by Alibaba’s Qwen - have rapidly surpassed those of US models like Llama. Even major US companies now cite Qwen for its speed and cost advantages. European models, while starting strong in 2023, are nowadays irrelevant. The race for open model dominance is heating up fast, with the competitive landscape likely to shift dramatically over the next year - fingers crossed for a strong Mistral comeback. » deepdive and more info

🌏 Asia spotlight

HunyuanImage 3.0 is a powerful Native Multimodel Model for Image Generation. 80B parameters, Largest Image Generation MoE Model. Reasons with world knowledge and generates text within images.

Inference speeds increase tenfold as Ant Group open-sources industry’s first high-performance diffusion language-model inference framework, dInfer.

Ant Group officially release Ring-1T, the open-source trillion-parameter thinking model build on the Ling 2.0 architecture. Ring-1T achieves silver-level IMO reasoning through pure natural language reasoning.

Baidu has officially released and open-sources its in-house multimodal document-parsing model, PaddleOCR-VL. It’s a lightweight, efficient model whose core component has only 0.9 billion parameters. It can accurately recognize complex elements - such as text, handwritten Chinese Characters, tables, formulas and charts - and support 109 languages. It is positioned for documents - intelligence tasks like government and enterprise document management, knowledge retrieval, archive digitization and scientific information extraction.

DeepSeek OCR processes PDFs at 1/10th the cost of traditional OCR tools. DeepSeek-OCR takes a new approach. Instead of sending long context directly to an LLM, it turns it into an image, compresses that image into visual tokens, and then passes those tokens to the LLM. Fewer tokens lead to lower computational cost from attention and a larger effective context window. This makes chatbots and document models more capable and efficient.

Huawei has officially unveiled the next-generation operating system HarmonyOS 6, which covers more than 90 Huawei device models and has already opened its public beta programme.

Is AI-driven stock trading a new secret to wealth? - NeurIPS 25’s latest research reveals the truth about LLM live trading. LLMs perform well on structured financial tasks, but they still have significant shortcomings in real-market dynamic decision-making, risk management and handling black-swan events. Projects like AlphaArena show the potential of AI in quantitive trading, yet DeepFund’s research warns that it’s essential to understand the limits of AI investing. Investors shouldn’t treat AI as a “wealth code”. It should be used as a decision-support tool, combined with their own risk tolerance and market judgement, to create a human-machine collaborative investment model.

📆 Upcoming Events

Nov 12 3. AI Policy Forum – KI in der Arbeitswelt
Nov 13 Power Electronics meets AI and Datacenter
Nov 13 Webinar - AI-Stacks im Gleichgewicht
Nov 17 2nd int’l conference on Agriculture & Natural Resources
Nov 20 Agentic AI Solutions mit Appian
Nov 20 Business Treff: From Pixels to Planet
Nov 20 Foundation Models verstehen und nutzen
Nov 21 DATEN&KI WANDERTAG
Nov 24 Automatisierung mittels AI-Agenten
Nov 24 Seminar on ML Security, Privacy & Legal Aspects
Nov 26 Finance Reimagined with AI
Nov 27 KI PRAXIS - Zukunft berechnet
Nov 27 Future Forward
Dec 03 Grundlagen von Trustworthy AI
Nov 27 Future Forward

👉 For more information on upcoming events head over to our community calendar.

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🧑‍💻 Featured Jobs

Once a month we feature selected openings from our job board in this section.

• AI-Driven Full-Stack Engineer and AI-Driven Frontend Engineer at Rankscale

• Berater für KI Projekte and Full-Stack-Entwickler (w/m/d) im Bereich AI & Web Applications at PWC Austria

• Senior Fullstack Developer – JavaScript / TypeScript at Xotigo

• ICT Sales – AI Infrastructure and Presales Solution Designer AI-Infrastructure (w/m/d), Presales Solution Designer AI Infrastructure at A1

• AI DevOps Engineer and Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Infrared City GmbH

• AI Engineer (remote) at Hello Inside

• Head of AI (fully remote) at its simple

• Automation Engineer (all genders) at i5invest

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