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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 17/09/2026

KE:SAI is an open science lab! We talk about our research without secrets. Visit our new website to find some of our recent talks: kesai.eu/talks/

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 10/09/2026

Making progress measurable in autonomous driving. Our new post traces the path from NAVSIM to the AlpaSim challenge: kesai.eu/blog/2026-09...

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 10/09/2026

At Cyber Valley Day, we had the great pleasure to welcome the minister president of Baden Württemberg Cem Özdemir to our KE:SAI garage and present our mission!

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 08/09/2026

KE:SAI is ready for CyberValley Day 2026! cyber-valley.de/en/events/cy...

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 23/07/2026

KE:SAI is hiring! You are super excited about world models and autonomy? Come and join our team! Let's have impact together! kesai.eu/join/

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 17/07/2026

It's getting real! We have been working on self-driving for more than 15 years, and most of that work has happened in simulation. Today that changes: our research vehicle arrived, and we can start testing our ideas in the physical world. kesai.eu/blog/2026-07...

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 08/07/2026

The AlpaSim E2E Closed Loop Challenge 2026 is open for registration and leaderboard access in a soft-open period. Build AV policies for realistic closed-loop simulation, where each policy's own decisions shape future scenes, observations, and interactions.

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 04/07/2026

🔥 ICML 2026 paper alert! Introducing PointDiT, a radically simple diffusion transformer for 3D geometry generation that bypasses the VAE bottleneck completely. We asked: Can we make 3D reconstruction beautifully simple? Turns out: Yes! 📄 Paper + Demo: haofeixu.github.io/pointdit/

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 03/07/2026

Our team placed 3rd in the KITScenes LongTail Challenge at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Autonomous Driving! We used zero-shot evaluation with the NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5 vision-language-action model, with zero fine-tuning or task-specific training.

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 28/06/2026

World Engine is a RL post-training simulator for end-to-end driving. In collaboration with industry (and industry-scale data), we present an end-to-end policy post-trained within World Engine that achieves 200 km real driving without intervention. github.com/OpenDriveLab...

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 27/06/2026

The unreasonable effectiveness of state-of-the-art imitation learning models in the CARLA simulator is largely explained by a hidden shortcut: the target point bias. Read more in our new blog. Link in the comments.

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 24/05/2026

KE:SAI has been (briefly) featured in ZDF Länderspiegel! Watch here (starting at 17:00, in German): www.zdf.de/video/magazi...

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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 20/05/2026

Bill Gurley made a fantastic post on the case for open-science labs like KE:SAI. A strongly encouraged read on open source in general and for autonomous vehicles in particular! p3institute.substack.com/p/from-open-...

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