MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI
Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology....
View ArticleResearch Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: We introduce privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning, a framework using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments, and other notable new research. We...
View ArticleResearch Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this edition: We introduce FLAVARS, a multimodal foundation language and vision alignment model for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory, a new class of memory which is more optimized to store...
View ArticleAdvances to low-bit quantization enable LLMs on edge devices
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed on edge devices—hardware that processes data locally near the data source, such as smartphones, laptops, and robots. Running LLMs on these...
View ArticleExACT: Improving AI agents’ decision-making via test-time compute scaling
Autonomous AI agents are transforming the way we approach multi-step decision-making processes, streamlining tasks like web browsing, video editing, and file management. By applying advanced machine...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research and Physics Wallah team up to enhance AI-based tutoring
In India, limited resources, geographical constraints, and economic factors present barriers to quality education for some students. A shortage of teachers, particularly in remote or low-income areas,...
View ArticleIntroducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation
Today, the journal Nature (opens in new tab) is publishing our latest research, which introduces the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM). The WHAM, which we’ve named “Muse,” is a generative AI...
View ArticleExploring the structural changes driving protein function with BioEmu-1
From forming muscle fibers to protecting us from disease, proteins play an essential role in almost all biological processes in humans and other life forms alike. There has been extraordinary progress...
View ArticleMagma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents across digital and...
Imagine an AI system capable of guiding a robot to manipulate physical objects as effortlessly as it navigates software menus. Such seamless integration of digital and physical tasks has long been the...
View ArticleAdvancing biomedical discovery: Overcoming data challenges in precision medicine
Introduction Modern biomedical research is driven by the promise of precision medicine—tailored treatments for individual patients through the integration of diverse, large-scale datasets. Yet, the...
View ArticleSemantic Telemetry: Understanding how users interact with AI systems
AI tools are proving useful across a range of applications, from helping to drive the new era of business transformation to helping artists craft songs. But which applications are providing the most...
View ArticleIntroducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, language understanding, and even creative tasks. Yet, a key challenge persists: how to efficiently integrate...
View ArticleClaimify: Extracting high-quality claims from language model outputs
While large language models (LLMs) are capable of synthesizing vast amounts of information, they sometimes produce inaccurate or unsubstantiated content. To mitigate this risk, tools like Azure AI’s...
View ArticleMetasurface: Unlocking the future of wireless sensing and communication
As the demand for faster, more reliable wireless communication continues to grow, but traditional systems face limitations in efficiency and adaptability. To keep up with evolving needs, researchers...
View ArticleResearch Focus: Week of March 24, 2025
In this issue: We examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic...
View ArticleVidTok introduces compact, efficient tokenization to enhance AI video processing
Every day, countless videos are uploaded and processed online, putting enormous strain on computational resources. The problem isn’t just the sheer volume of data—it’s how this data is structured....
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