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For the cover of this year's Christmas cards we wanted to create something special: a short animated video featuring festive scenes from the TNG locations Munich, Budapest, Oxford, Melbourne, and Tallinn. To accomplish this, we made use of several innovative AI tools. As a first step we asked ChatGPT to come up with a text-to-image prompt. The output is then used to generate a series of beautiful images in Midjourney. To animate the static pictures and incorporate the typical Christmas bustle in the cities we worked with the video AI RunwayML. In a final step, we edited and combined the different scenes and added our Christmas greetings. This resulted in the following short video:

If you want to learn more, please check out our making-of.

After exhibiting our Dark Tales at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn on Halloween, our Innovation Hacking team has now come up with something new: For the holiday season, we have dusted ai-slides.com with snow and glitter and converted it into a Christmas story generator. In addition to slide decks and spooky horror stories, ai-slides.com will now also feature joyful Christmas short stories generated by just a few prompts. These are narrated by the voice of one of our colleagues. The AI was trained with only one minute of voice recording. Although the training material was exclusively in German, English stories are also possible. The images generated by DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion XL further contribute to the festive atmosphere. You can find a collection of our Christmas stories here. 
 

Today marks the start of this year's Advent of Code, which TNG is proud to sponsor once again. So, pull out your keyboard and solve your way through a Christmas story with this coding-based Advent calendar. Enjoy, and good luck!

Last week, our colleagues Vanda Balogh, Benjamin Balogh, Balász Göntér and Áron Erdélyi attended Informatikai Szakmai Nap in Szeged, Hungary. At the job fair annually organized by the computer science department of the University of Szeged, we talked to many students from different IT backgrounds. It was a pleasure getting to know new talents and introducing them to TNG, as our Hungarian branch is growing. We are always looking for new software consultants to join our team in Hungary. If you're interested, don't hesitate to apply here.

We are happy to sponsor Quod Erat Demonstrandum e.V. this year. This association of enthusiastic mathematicians fosters talented students and nurtures their interest far beyond the topics normally encountered in school. As part of the sponsorship, our colleague Nicholas Schwab gave a talk at the QED conference last weekend about the subset sum problem, which he encountered during his work at TNG. Even though theoretical in nature, it showcased the trade-offs our consultants have to consider when developing the best solutions for a particular use case. For more information about Quod Erat Demonstrandum e.V. please visit their website: https://qed-verein.de 

You're in the mood for Halloween and scary stories that will make your blood run cold? – Then we have just the right thing for you: our TNG Dark Tales. Starting today, the Deutsches Museum in Bonn is exhibiting our latest AI showcase. Simply enter a prompt, and AI will generate a horror story narrated by the voice of actress Ulrike Johannson for you – creepy characters and dark twists guaranteed. You can try out our Dark Tales until November 5th.
 

We are excited that our Australian subsidiary, TNG Technology Consulting ANZ, is now listed on the Australian AI Ecosystem Discoverability Portal. The platform managed by CSIRO's National AI Center provides an overview of all companies and institutions that support other businesses in implementing artificial intelligence and making it commercially viable. You can find our profile and the AI services we offer at: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/ai/AI-capabilities-directory/TNG-Technology 

An escape game on steroids: Next week, the puzzle hunt enigame enters its ninth round, and we are happy to be a part of it as a gold sponsor. Of course, a team of TNG colleagues will also accompany the little robot Eni on its latest adventure and try to solve as many of the 25+ puzzles as possible. The competition is organized by the TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology and takes place from October 27th to 30th. If you want to participate, more information can be found here: https://www.enigame.de/home 

FOCUS Business and Statista awarded us for being Growth Champions in 2024. This validates our position within the 500 most rapidly expanding companies in Germany, a testament to our growth both in revenue and number of employees. In 2022, we achieved a turnover of €95.8 million and this year, we anticipate surpassing the €110 million mark. Furthermore, this September our TNG crew surpassed 800 full-time employees for the first time, marking yet another significant milestone in our journey. More information on the award can be found here.

Laptops for Ukraine: Last week we sent a donation to the association München Hilft Ukraine e.V.. Thirty laptops from our storage will be distributed among scientists in the Kharkiv region. With this donation we support the SaveScienceUA project which aims to rebuild the Ukrainian scientific community. We hope to contribute to the continuation of their important work.
Further information on SaveScienceUA and the work of München Hilft Ukraine e.V. can be found here: https://www.muenchen-hilft-ukraine.de/en/science