43 entries in seven categories
Nine million people, no Silicon Valley — and yet one of the densest AI landscapes in the world.
Two federal universities, ETH Zürich and EPFL, produce the talent that made Zürich Google’s largest development hub outside the US and drew OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Apple and NVIDIA into town, while the «Alps» supercomputer in Lugano gives public research frontier-scale compute — it trained Apertus, the fully open Swiss LLM. Add sector-specific regulation instead of a sweeping AI act, and Geneva as the world’s AI-governance table.
Where Swiss AI happens
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Ecosystem snapshot, state September 2026 — facts checked against public sources in September 2026. Companies, offices and policies move fast; treat this as a living document.
Data state: 30 September 2026