LSTM Pioneer Hochreiter on AI's Third Phase: xLSTM, TiRex and Embodied AI
maier_ak · x · 2026-09-04
A 1h35m recording of Sepp Hochreiter's talk "The Next Phase of Artificial Intelligence" (FAU, Aug 2026) is now available.
- Hochreiter argues AI is entering a third phase: after foundational research and scaling ever-larger models, intelligence is now industrializing into machines and robots operating in the physical world.
- xLSTM: an architecture built for that shift, offering efficient recurrent computation with long-range state tracking in linear time.
- TiRex: a time-series foundation model built on xLSTM.
- On robotics: intelligent systems need working memory of the current situation plus episodic memory of past experience, so they can recognize familiar contexts and adapt behavior.
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