The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), one of the world’s most influential gatherings for artificial intelligence researchers, said its 2025 edition will be staged simultaneously in three physical locations. In addition to the main site in New Orleans, the organizers have endorsed EurIPS, an independently run meeting in Copenhagen, and will establish a second satellite venue in Mexico City. NeurIPS officials said the expansion aims to ease mounting pressures from record attendance and persistent difficulties many international participants face in securing US travel visas. The Copenhagen and Mexico City hubs will allow authors of papers accepted by NeurIPS to present their work in person without traveling to the United States, marking the first time the 37-year-old conference has offered parallel sites outside the country. The move underscores growing concern that visa hurdles and soaring costs are limiting access to major scientific events and, by extension, slowing the global exchange of ideas in AI research. Organizers did not say whether the multi-site format will continue after 2025, noting that they will evaluate its effectiveness once this year’s conference concludes.