A new analysis warns that the remarkable progress in AI reasoning models, which has driven recent breakthroughs, could hit a roadblock by 2026 due to factors like computing limitations and high research costs, potentially stalling further massive performance gains.
Google unveiled the AI Futures Fund, a strategic initiative to empower startups leveraging Google's AI tools, providing early access to models, expert support, cloud credits, and potential investment, while also committing resources for AI education, training, and supporting nonprofits in the field.
MBZUAI unveils the Institute of Digital Public Health, harnessing AI foundation models and a data-driven approach to drive innovation across computational biology, precision medicine, infectious disease monitoring, and the UAE Genome Atlas for transformative public health solutions.
OpenAI's reasoning models like o3 are rapidly improving, but it's uncertain how much further they can scale, with current training compute likely below the frontier but not drastically behind, suggesting potential for continued rapid scaling in the near term before growth slows.
Meta appoints former Google DeepMind director Robert Fergus to rescue its struggling FAIR lab as researchers flee en masse to competitors and the company's own GenAI division.
The Trump administration's deep cuts to science funding, including capping medical research grants and restricting diversity initiatives, threaten U.S. leadership in scientific research, potentially leading to layoffs and missed discoveries at agencies like the National Science Foundation.
Researchers unveiled a groundbreaking AI model, LinOSS, inspired by brain oscillations, that excels at long sequence predictions by leveraging principles of forced harmonic oscillators, outperforming existing state-of-the-art models and showing promise for applications like climate science and financial forecasting.
Ai2 released Olmo 2 1B, an open-source 1-billion-parameter AI model that outperforms tech giants' models on benchmarks while running on consumer hardware, but carries risks like harmful or inaccurate outputs.
Unraveling the intricate dance of atoms as they rearrange themselves, chemical reactions transform matter into entirely new substances, a captivating process governed by the fundamental laws of conservation and meticulously balanced equations, unveiling a diverse tapestry of gas-forming, precipitation, acid-base, and oxidation-reduction phenomena.
Cisco Security unveiled Foundation AI, an initiative focused on developing advanced AI models and tools specifically tailored for cybersecurity applications, including an 8B parameter language model pre-trained on security data and plans to release an AI reasoning model, aiming to drive open-source innovation in applying cutting-edge AI to tackle cybersecurity …