Title: The Next Phase of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Prof. Sepp Hochreiter (Johannes Kepler University Linz — Institute for Machine Learning and LIT AI Lab; founder of NXAI)
Original talk: Monday, August 17th, 2026 — Beyond the Patterns
Recording: https://www.fau.tv/clips/60-sepp-hochreiter-johannes-kepler-university-linz-nxai-the-next-phase-of-artificial-intelligence-w24 (1 h 35 min)
Abstract: AI is entering its third phase. It began with foundational research, continued with the scaling of ever larger models on ever larger datasets, and is now industrialising — bringing intelligence into machines and robots that operate in the physical world. xLSTM is an architecture built for that shift: efficient recurrent computation with long-range state tracking in linear time. TiRex, built on xLSTM, is a time-series foundation model. Robotics needs more than prediction, though: an intelligent system needs working memory of the current situation alongside episodic memory of past experience, so it can recognise a familiar context and adapt its behaviour.
Bio: Sepp Hochreiter directs the Institute for Machine Learning and the LIT AI Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz and founded NXAI. A pioneer of deep learning, he developed Long Short-Term Memory and identified the vanishing gradient problem — the contributions that made modern language models possible.