Topic: ai research

  • AI Achieves in 2 Days What Took Researchers 10 Years

    AI Achieves in 2 Days What Took Researchers 10 Years

    Google's AI system Co-scientist replicated a decade-long scientific breakthrough in just two days by independently analyzing data and generating the same hypothesis. The AI not only matched the human researchers' findings but also proposed four additional credible theories, including one entirely...

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  • Nvidia Supercomputer Boosts Taiwan's Quantum Research

    Nvidia Supercomputer Boosts Taiwan's Quantum Research

    Taiwan is deploying an advanced Nvidia-powered supercomputer, offering eight times more AI processing power than its previous system, to boost AI, climate modeling, and quantum computing research. The supercomputer will support Taiwan AI RAP, a generative AI platform, and TAIDE language models fo...

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  • Coco Robotics launches AI lab led by UCLA professor

    Coco Robotics launches AI lab led by UCLA professor

    Coco Robotics has launched a new AI research facility to utilize five years of data from its delivery robots, aiming to advance full autonomy and reduce costs. The lab is led by Professor Bolei Zhou, whose expertise in computer vision and robotics aligns with Coco's goals, and he is expected to a...

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  • Reflection raises $2B to become America's open AI lab

    Reflection raises $2B to become America's open AI lab

    Reflection secured a $2 billion investment, raising its valuation to $8 billion and positioning itself as a major open-source AI competitor to firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, the company has built a team of top AI experts and infrastructure to train...

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  • AI Expert Andrew Tulloch Joins Meta from Thinking Machines Lab

    AI Expert Andrew Tulloch Joins Meta from Thinking Machines Lab

    Meta has hired Andrew Tulloch, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, as part of its aggressive strategy to lead in artificial intelligence. The recruitment follows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to acquire the startup and reportedly offering Tulloch a compensation...

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  • Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab

    Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab

    Meta has recruited Yang Song from OpenAI to lead its Superintelligence Labs, part of an aggressive hiring campaign that has attracted top researchers from firms like Google and Anthropic. Song specialized in enhancing AI models for complex datasets at OpenAI and contributed to the development of ...

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  • Amazon AGI Labs Chief Explains His Reverse Acquihire Strategy

    Amazon AGI Labs Chief Explains His Reverse Acquihire Strategy

    Amazon introduced a "reverse acquihire" by hiring Adept's founders and licensing its technology, focusing on talent and IP rather than a full acquisition. David Luan, now leading Amazon's AGI Lab, joined to address key research problems in achieving artificial general intelligence, valuing access...

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  • OpenAI, NVIDIA Partner on $100B AI Infrastructure Plan

    OpenAI, NVIDIA Partner on $100B AI Infrastructure Plan

    OpenAI and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership to build the largest-ever AI infrastructure, involving a $100 billion investment from NVIDIA to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of computing systems. The initiative will launch in late 2026 using NVIDIA's new Vera Rubin platform, designed to supp...

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  • Ambani Enlists Google, Meta to Build India's AI Infrastructure

    Ambani Enlists Google, Meta to Build India's AI Infrastructure

    Mukesh Ambani has launched Reliance Intelligence to build India's AI infrastructure, partnering with Google and Meta to develop enterprise and consumer AI solutions. A key initiative includes a collaboration with Google Cloud to establish an AI cloud infrastructure in India, starting with a data ...

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  • Trump Unveils Aggressive New AI Strategy for the US

    Trump Unveils Aggressive New AI Strategy for the US

    The U.S. has released a 28-page AI strategy, Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan, outlining nearly 100 initiatives to boost AI leadership, infrastructure, and global influence. The plan focuses on accelerating AI research, expanding domestic infrastructure like data centers, and shapi...

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  • Ex-OpenAI, DeepMind Scientists Land $300M to Automate Science

    Ex-OpenAI, DeepMind Scientists Land $300M to Automate Science

    Periodic Labs launched with $300 million in seed funding to pioneer automated scientific discovery using AI scientists that autonomously conduct experiments, backed by prominent tech investors. The startup, co-founded by former Google Brain and OpenAI executives, aims to develop advanced material...

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  • 7 Must-Have Features for the iPhone 17: AI Leads the Way

    7 Must-Have Features for the iPhone 17: AI Leads the Way

    The iPhone 17 must deeply integrate advanced AI features at a system level, such as conversational voice assistants and context-aware tools, to compete with rivals like Google's Pixel 10. Key improvements could include AI-enhanced computational zoom for photography, group photo optimization, and ...

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  • Man vs. Machine Hackathon: Inside the Epic Showdown

    Man vs. Machine Hackathon: Inside the Epic Showdown

    A hackathon in San Francisco tested whether AI coding assistants improve or hinder development by pitting AI-assisted teams against human-only ones. The event highlighted ongoing debate in tech about AI's impact, with a recent study suggesting it may slow experienced developers despite productivi...

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  • 7 Features We Hope iPhone 17 Borrows from Google & OpenAI

    7 Features We Hope iPhone 17 Borrows from Google & OpenAI

    The iPhone 17 must integrate advanced AI directly into its operating system to compete with rivals like Google and OpenAI, enhancing user experience while maintaining privacy. Key areas for improvement include a more intuitive voice assistant, computational photography for better zoom, and contex...

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  • Mira Murati's Secret AI Lab Unveils First Product

    Mira Murati's Secret AI Lab Unveils First Product

    Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI researchers, has launched Tinker, a platform that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models to make advanced capabilities more accessible to a wider audience. Tinker simplifies the resource-intensive process of fine-tuning AI models, enabling ...

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  • 7 AI Features We Want to See in the iPhone 17

    7 AI Features We Want to See in the iPhone 17

    The iPhone 17 must prioritize system-level AI integration to compete with rivals like Google's Pixel 10, which offer deeply embedded features that enhance user experience beyond standalone apps. Key areas for improvement include enhancing Siri with advanced capabilities like conversational interf...

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  • Scaling Agentic AI: A Healthcare Revolution

    Scaling Agentic AI: A Healthcare Revolution

    Agentic AI in healthcare combines large language models with symbolic systems to enhance decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. A hybrid AI architecture, integrating reinforcement learning and clinical logic, reduces inaccuracies and grounds ou...

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  • Why Europe Needs More AI Talent: Founders' Insights

    Why Europe Needs More AI Talent: Founders' Insights

    Europe is at a critical juncture to lead in AI by leveraging its industrial expertise and research legacy, but must act decisively to develop and deploy homegrown solutions to avoid dependency on foreign technologies. Despite pioneering key AI innovations like convolutional neural networks and LS...

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  • Must-Have AI Features for the iPhone 17

    Must-Have AI Features for the iPhone 17

    The iPhone 17 must achieve deeper system-level AI integration to compete with rivals like Google Pixel 10, which are redefining smartphone intelligence. Key features to consider include a more advanced voice assistant like ChatGPT's Voice Mode, computational zoom for better photography, and conte...

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  • Anthropic and IBM Forge AI Alliance

    Anthropic and IBM Forge AI Alliance

    IBM and Anthropic have partnered to integrate Claude AI models into IBM's enterprise software, starting with its development environment for select clients. The collaboration includes a joint guide for businesses to build and manage AI agents, though financial details remain undisclosed. Anthropi...

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  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Praises Google Gemini AI Image Generator

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Praises Google Gemini AI Image Generator

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised Google's Gemini Nano Banana AI image generator, noting it generated over 300 million images shortly after its launch. Huang expressed optimism about the UK's AI potential and announced Nvidia's $683 million investment in Nscale, projecting significant future revenu...

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  • A New Kind of Vision: How Fei-Fei Li Taught Machines to See

    A New Kind of Vision: How Fei-Fei Li Taught Machines to See

    Discover how computer scientist Fei-Fei Li pioneered ImageNet, the dataset that revolutionized computer vision and deep learning, and why she continues to advocate for a human-centered approach to AI development.

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  • Presight Launches Abu Dhabi's First AI-Startup Bootcamp to Boost Global Innovation

    Presight Launches Abu Dhabi's First AI-Startup Bootcamp to Boost Global Innovation

    STARTUPS & INNOVATIONPresight has kicked off its first-ever AI-Startup Accelerator Bootcamp in Abu Dhabi, uniting 10 global startups to scale innovative AI solutions, foster collaboration, and accelerate growth towards GITEX Expand North Star 2025. Abu Dhabi has become the focal point of global AI innovation as Presight, a leading AI and big data analytics company, launched its first-ever AI-Startup Accelerator Bootcamp, hosting 10 promising startups from across the globe. The three-day immersiv...

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  • Watch AI Models Battle Live in Google's Game Arena

    Watch AI Models Battle Live in Google's Game Arena

    Google launched Game Arena, an open-source platform where AI models compete in strategic games to evaluate their problem-solving abilities in real-time scenarios. The platform hosts matches in chess and strategy games, testing skills like long-term planning and adaptive reasoning, which have appl...

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  • Oracle Seeks $15 Billion in Major Bond Sale

    Oracle Seeks $15 Billion in Major Bond Sale

    Oracle is preparing a $15 billion corporate bond sale, which may include an unusual 40-year bond, following its major AI infrastructure partnership with OpenAI. The company recently secured a $300 billion cloud computing deal with OpenAI and is reportedly negotiating another potential $20 billion...

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