Former Cohere VP Sara Hooker launches Adaption Labs with $20-40M in seed funding, challenging the billion-dollar AI scaling paradigm by developing systems that continuously learn and adapt in real-time rather than relying on increasingly expensive traditional model scaling approaches showing diminishing returns.
Researchers at Mila unveil 'Markovian Thinking' technique that slashes AI training costs by over two-thirds while enabling models to reason with up to 140,000 tokens and potentially scale to million-token capabilities through revolutionary linear compute scaling instead of traditional quadratic methods.
Yandex unveils groundbreaking open-source AI that detects cerebral palsy in infants under 12 months with 90% accuracy by analyzing MRI scans, reducing diagnosis time from days to minutes and offering free access to healthcare institutions worldwide through GitHub.
DeepSeek-AI launches DeepSeek-OCR, a groundbreaking optical character recognition model that dynamically adjusts resolution from 512×512 to 1280×1280 pixels and converts documents directly to markdown format while parsing figures and locating specific text within images.
Encord unveils breakthrough EBind methodology that trains powerful multimodal AI models on single GPUs in hours rather than weeks, with their 1.8 billion-parameter system outperforming competitors using 17 times more parameters by prioritizing data quality over computational brute force.
OpenAI recruits renowned black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca to lead new science team as GPT-5 demonstrates breakthrough capability to solve graduate-level astrophysics problems in minutes that typically require days, signaling the company's ambitious push beyond chatbots into serious scientific discovery territory.
Google DeepMind partners with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to use AI software for simulating plasma physics in their SPARC fusion reactor launching in late 2026, as Google commits to purchasing 200 megawatts of the clean energy despite commercial fusion power remaining years away.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaMissense, a breakthrough AI system that predicts disease risk from 71 million genetic mutations with 90% accuracy, vastly outperforming existing methods and offering free access to researchers worldwide to accelerate rare disease diagnosis and treatment development.
Large Language Models revolutionize time-series analysis by automatically detecting patterns, spotting anomalies, and generating forecasts through advanced prompt engineering, while streamlining preprocessing tasks like stationarity testing and seasonal decomposition to transform how analysts approach temporal data prediction.
Google launches DeepSomatic, an open-source AI tool that outperforms existing methods in identifying cancer-driving genetic variants, using advanced neural networks to distinguish inherited from acquired mutations and promising more precise cancer treatments for patients worldwide.