24.11.2025
Gauss AI Compute Grant Supports Matthias Niessner's MeshFoundation Project
The MeshFoundation Project Will Leverage the JUPITER Exascale Supercomputer to Develop a General-Purpose Foundation Model for 3D Meshes.
We are pleased to announce that MCML PI Matthias Niessner has been selected as a winner of the Gauss AI Compute Competition for his project MeshFoundation: Building a General-Purpose 3D Mesh Foundation Model via Extreme-Scale Context Transformers on JUPITER. The award provides access to the JUPITER exascale supercomputer to accelerate cutting-edge AI research.
The MeshFoundation project aims to develop a general-purpose foundation model for 3D meshes by leveraging extreme-scale context transformers. Access to JUPITER's computational resources will enable large-scale training and advance AI methods for understanding and generating complex 3D data.
Related
31.07.2026
Benedikt Wiestler: We Want to Build a Time Machine
MCML PI Benedikt Wiestler explains how AI models help to develop specific strategies in clinical therapy for brain tumor patients.
28.07.2026
Gaps in the Benchmark: Why Medical AI Fails in the Real World
MCML researchers show in Nature Health how dynamic red teaming exposes hidden weaknesses in Medical AI beyond static benchmarks.
26.07.2026
Barbara Plank Becomes President of the Association for Computational Linguistics
MCML PI Barbara Plank becomes President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the world's leading NLP organization.
