AI Research Centre to Be Established in Hungary in 2026

11.09.2025

At AI Summit 2025, Roland Jakab, CEO of HUN-REN, announced that an AI research centre is to be established in Hungary in 2026. Preparations to set up the centre are already beyond the planning stage: concrete steps are already being taken, and implementation is under way. He noted that, while the technology has extraordinary capabilities, it remains characterised by fundamental contradictions.

On 8 September, the opening day of AI Summit 2025 at the House of Music Hungary, Roland Jakab, CEO of HUN-REN, announced that HUN-REN is to establish an AI research centre in 2026. He added that an international expert panel will be set up, under international leadership, and that the centre would prioritise topics of particular importance to Hungary. The centre will focus on three main areas: specialised AI research, fundamental AI research, and trustworthy AI research.

‘The arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — capable of performing, or even surpassing, any human-level task — is no longer in doubt; the only question is when,’ emphasised Roland Jakab in his address at AI Summit 2025. He added that, according to leading technologists, the breakthrough is expected between 2025 and 2030.

Looking to 2025, the CEO of HUN-REN identified three key trends. First, the emergence of reasoning in models: allowing models more time to respond yields more accurate results. Second, tool use, in which AI agents are granted access to email, file systems, calendars, and other internal systems. Third, specialisation, with a growing number of purpose-built models for specific domains.

The full article in Hungarian is available here; watch Roland Jakab’s presentation (in Hungarian) here.