u:ai: your AI software for research, teaching and administration
u:ai is the University of Vienna’s AI software, tailor-made for academic requirements. Whether you want to create texts and images, analyse documents, perform translation of texts in more than 100 languages or create customised chatbots via Tailored AI – the AI tool helps you to make your work processes more efficient and simplify routine tasks.
Log in at uai.univie.ac.at with your u:account credentials and give it a try.
New on board: additional functions and access for students
u:ai has gained several new features in recent weeks:
- Image generator and image analysis via chatbot
- Translator that translates texts and documents in more than 100 languages, recognises text in images and retains the text and file format as far as possible
- Internet search to obtain more up-to-date results when needed
- Additional language models, such as Mistral Large 3 with a focus on European languages
- Invitation links or QR codes to easily invite users to Tailored AI
From now on, students can also access u:ai and use the AI tool for their everyday studies.
“We want to gradually turn u:ai into a versatile assistant. It should be able to help employees and students with numerous tasks at the university and be secure and easy to use,” explains August Szabo, u:ai project manager at the ZID.
What’s coming in 2026
With this in mind, u:ai will also receive the following new features in the course of the year:
- AI agents for process automation
- Summary Bot for summarising long texts
- More extensive file uploads, including text recognition
- Transcription of audio and video files
- Additional language models such as Google Gemini and Claude
- Export of chat histories
For more information about u:ai, please visit the u:ai service page.