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Three different institutions unite to build trust in technology
A collaboration seminar takes place in early January 2026 at The Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Centre to discuss responsible use of AI. The seminar will highlight the importance of fostering conversations that bridge diverse fields, including health, technology, and human rights.
By bringing together experts and stakeholders, the initiative by the Falstad Center, Hemit HF and NorwAI seeks to explore how technological advancements can be harnessed responsibly while safeguarding democratic values and public trust.
- We aim to invite a group to an interdisciplinary discourse with professionals from the Norwegian society who, through their work, address the challenges and ethical implications of technology use, says Innovation Manager Ketil Thorvik at Hemit HF – one of the initiators of the seminar «Democratic resilience in the times of lies».
2025-12-17
Two candidates for partnership in NorwAI from the health domain
12 Norwegian companies are already partners in NorwAI. Now two more, one start-up company and a large IT-company in the health sector, wants to join the research center. The applications connect to NorwAI’s plans for the health services.
2025-12-17
Tanja on research stay at University of Cambridge, UK for her studies in voice and speech technology
- In my thesis, I examined the increasingly complex knowledge infrastructures of voice, speech, and language technologies as these expand ubiquitously into everyday life. Well-known examples of the emerging “voice intelligence industry” include digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, Cortana), but the industry markets voice AI for applications much beyond human-computer interaction (HCI), says Tanja Knaus, PhD candidate in NorwAI.
2025-12-17
The Tech Oligarchs dominate too much
Norway risks losing control over its digital infrastructure by relying too heavily on American big tech, warn professors. They urge a national strategy for digital sovereignty and open, sustainable alternatives.
2025-12-17
Prominent work by our fellows
The research center NorwAI aims to train 25 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers during its lifetime, and five years into the period, a number of PhD candidates have successfully reached milestones. Meet some of them here and read about their research.
2025-12-16
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Two accepted papers at ECAI 2025 for Kazeem
A great win for PhD Abdul Kazeem Shamba that got two papers accepted and gave two presentations at Europe’s largest AI conference 
2025-10-30
New plans for cooperation in the health domain:
Can smaller Norwegian models perform better than large models?
Hemit HF, a subsidiary of the regional health authority in Mid-Norway, wants to explore, test, and validate Norwegian-based trustworthy LLMs to assess whether they perform better than large, international models. The plans include exciting research challenges.
Professor Eric Monteiro is leading NorwAI’s initiative to enter the health domain. Photo Kai T. Dragland
2025-10-30
News Recommendation Workshop at ACM RecSyS 2025:
Following up our work on Recommender Systems
This year the the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA) has been organized for the 13th time by our team members at NorwAI and the Departement of Computer Science. The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2025 has been hosting the workshop once more this year.
2025-10-30
A new NorLLM roadmap
NorwAI intend to introduce new large language models at the 2025 NorwAI Innovate Conference. The roadmap for the research Center reflects a change in the work ahead.
2025-09-05
AI for Ocean and Health: Key Areas for Norway’s Future
Division Executive Director Anne Kjersti Fahlvik from the Research Council of Norway points out several areas for improvement as Norway aims to strengthen its position in artificial intelligence. The ocean and health sectors stand out as particularly promising domains for future development.The director also acknowledges NorwAI's contributions in this interview.
2025-09-04
An Ocean of Data
Norway is a major power at sea – both as a manager, a creator of value and a knowledge nation. At the Arendal week, NTNU has initiated a debate on how shall we make use of this position.
2025-08-05
AI Assistant Guide Ready for Use
Professor Jon Atle Gulla, Director of NorwAI, led the expert committee that, in record time, produced the report “AI Assistants in the Workplace – A Practical Guide”, aimed at accelerating Norway’s digital transformation. On June 16, Minister Karianne Tung received the report.
2025-06-17
Large Language Models in 2025 and Beyond
NorwAI's Norwegian large language models, launched in May 2024, have garnered positive feedback from organizations across the country. As we move into 2025, the focus shifts towards developing domain-adapted models and establishing a national center for language modeling.
2025-04-04
Large Language Models for Norwegian Contexts
Svein Arne Brygfjeld, Special Advisor on AI at the National Library of Norway, discusses the importance of developing large language models that reflect Norwegian languages and culture. He highlights Norway's digitization efforts and the progress of the Mimir project in creating and evaluating these models, while also addressing the challenges of using copyrighted content for training.
2025-03-18
Maturity is needed
To harness the values inherent in AI and language models, a much greater level of organisational maturity is required than often is the case today, argues Pål Nedregotten, Director of Technology and Product at The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
2025-02-27
Nice tribute to a hard-working couple: Researchers Lemei and Peng to share their AI competence
After successfully giving tutorials at the ECAI conference in Spain last year, the two scientists were asked to write for German publisher Springer Nature to reach an even bigger audience.
2025-02-27