Around 20 to 35 % of the population suffers from chronic sleep disorders. Moreover, almost every teenager or adult has experienced short-term sleep deprivation at some point. Jülich researchers have now been able to show that the brain regions involved in the two conditions differ significantly.

Stefan Kesselheim and Andreas Herten from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre helped to develop Teuken-7B. In the magazine effzett, they explain what distinguishes the multilingual open-source model from commercial products such as ChatGPT.

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Forschungszentrum Jülich is a European hotspot for quantum research. To mark Quantum Year, we are highlighting JUNIQ, the world's first quantum computing infrastructure, with a special page on our website.

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Around 20 to 35 % of the population suffers from chronic sleep disorders. Moreover, almost every teenager or adult has experienced short-term sleep deprivation at some point. Jülich researchers have now been able to show that the brain regions involved in the two conditions differ significantly.