Therapy Support Recognized by Prof. Duch and DELL
Last Friday, we received an award in Dell’s competition for projects utilizing local AI computing power.
Among 630 submissions, Prof. Włodzisław Duch selected the project “AI Therapy Support - on-prem AI processing for secure therapeutic documentation” as one of five outstanding solutions. The prize: a Dell Pro Max with GB10 chip - a micro-supercomputer that enables running large language models locally, without sending data to external cloud providers.
Who is Prof. Włodzisław Duch?
Prof. Włodzisław Duch is one of Poland’s most recognized figures in artificial intelligence. A physicist, computer scientist, and cognitive scientist affiliated with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, head of the Neurocognitive Laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Center for Modern Technologies UMK, and former Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education.
For over three decades, he has been working with neural networks, machine learning, and at the intersection of AI and neurocognitivism. In 2025, he was among the recipients of the Digital Shapers award in the “Visionary” category.
He consistently argues that the future of AI in Poland is not about copying global giants, but about specific, local applications - in medicine, administration, education - ones that protect privacy and operate independently from the cloud.
Why This Matters to Us
Therapeutic documentation contains some of the most sensitive healthcare data. Session content, working hypotheses, clinical notes - this material requires a fundamentally different security standard than the average AI tool.
Therapy Support has been built from the ground up around the principle of safe AI for clinical work. Session data does not go to external language models. It is not used to train others’ systems. It remains in an environment we fully control and which we design with the requirements of mental health documentation in mind.
What Does This Award Mean?
We see the recognition from Prof. Duch’s selection as validation of the direction we’re developing Therapy Support:
AI as a tool supporting therapeutic practice, grounded in the realities of clinical work and data security requirements.
Thank you to Prof. Duch and the competition organizers. We’re glad that the topic of responsible, local AI processing in mental health care is part of a broader conversation about the future of this technology in Poland.
Want to learn more about the competition? Visit: https://www.ainatwoimbiurku.pl/#wygraj