The Conversation

All models are wrong − a computational modeling expert explains how engineers make them useful

Zachary del Rosario receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Toyota Research Institute. Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ...
VentureBeat

Sakana introduces new AI architecture, ‘Continuous Thought Machines’ to make models reason with less guidance — like human brains

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Quanta Magazine

How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said ...

How Foundation Models Are Making Sense Of The Microbiome

For patients taking medications that don't work as expected or pharmaceutical companies struggling with clinical trial failures, MetaOmics-10T represents a new starting point.
Microsoft

AI ‘for all’: How access to new models is advancing academic research, from astronomy to education

In early 2023, Professor Alice Oh and her colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) realized they needed to address the quickly growing interest in OpenAI ChatGPT ...
The Scientist

Researchers Decode How Protein Language Models Think, Making AI More Transparent

For large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, accuracy often means complexity. To be able to make good predictions, ChatGPT must deeply understand the concepts and features that are associated with ...
Microsoft

From forecasting storms to designing molecules: How new AI foundation models can speed up scientific discovery

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.