Sepp Hochreiter

Sepp Hochreiter heads the Institute for Machine Learning, the LIT AI Lab, and is Director of the ELLIS Unit at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is the founder of the company NXAI, which advances new deep learning technologies such as xLSTM. He is considered a pioneer of deep learning due to his fundamental work and historical milestones, the development of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and the analysis of the Vanishing Gradient. Dr. Hochreiter's groundbreaking work on LSTM was at the core of the first large language models that later led to ChatGPT and similar models.