Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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One Model Talks, Another One Thinks: GPT-Live pairs full-duplex voice models with a reasoning model (GPT-5.5) on the backend
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

One Model Talks, Another One Thinks: GPT-Live pairs full-duplex voice models with a reasoning model (GPT-5.5) on the backend

ChatGPT’s voice mode now listens and speaks at the same time, passing harder questions posed to the conversational model to a reasoning model in the background.

July 17, 20265 min read
Text Without Typing: Researchers at Meta and other institutions built Brain2Qwerty v2 to generate sentences from brain waves
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Text Without Typing: Researchers at Meta and other institutions built Brain2Qwerty v2 to generate sentences from brain waves

Imagine you are typing a sentence. But instead of a keyboard, joystick, or eye tracker, a device surrounding your head reads your intentions and generates that sentence on screen.

July 10, 20263 min read
DeepSeek’s DSpark Gains Velocity: DeepSeek open sourced a speculative decoding module that speeds up text generation without losing accuracy
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DeepSeek’s DSpark Gains Velocity: DeepSeek open sourced a speculative decoding module that speeds up text generation without losing accuracy

DeepSeek built a speculative decoding module that speeds up its production models’ text generation by more than 50 percent without sacrificing accuracy, then made its technique open source.

July 10, 20265 min read
Apple’s Foundation Models Will Be Gemini: Apple announced a partnership with Google to power Siri and other AI features
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Apple’s Foundation Models Will Be Gemini: Apple announced a partnership with Google to power Siri and other AI features

Apple cut a multi-year deal with Google to use Gemini models as the basis of AI models that reside on Apple devices.

January 23, 20263 min read
Retrieval Faces Hard Limits: Google and Johns Hopkins researchers show embedding models can’t search unlimited documents
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Retrieval Faces Hard Limits: Google and Johns Hopkins researchers show embedding models can’t search unlimited documents

Can your retriever find all the relevant documents for any query your users might enter? Maybe not, research shows.

January 16, 20264 min read
Better Spatial Perception for Robots: MolmoAct creates spatial maps for robots to plot their actions before executing text directions
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Better Spatial Perception for Robots: MolmoAct creates spatial maps for robots to plot their actions before executing text directions

Robot control systems that accept only text input struggle to translate words into motions in space. Researchers developed a system that enables robots to plan spatial paths before they execute text instructions.

October 15, 20253 min read
What ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study shows
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What ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study shows

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.

September 24, 20253 min read
Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory: Walmart’s Element platform for industrial-scale AI app development — a progress report
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Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory: Walmart’s Element platform for industrial-scale AI app development — a progress report

The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.

July 9, 20252 min read
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
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Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding

Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.

March 19, 20253 min read
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding

Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.

March 19, 20253 min read
Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
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Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models

Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.

March 5, 20252 min read
Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
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Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models

Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.

March 5, 20252 min read
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

February 26, 20253 min read
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

February 26, 20253 min read
Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
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Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.

February 12, 20253 min read

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