Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.
Machine Learning Research

Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.

Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.

July 9, 20254 min read
Meta’s Smart Glasses Come Into Focus: Meta reveals further details of Aria Gen 2 smart glasses for multisensory AI research
Machine Learning Research

Meta’s Smart Glasses Come Into Focus: Meta reveals further details of Aria Gen 2 smart glasses for multisensory AI research

Meta revealed new details about its latest Aria eyeglasses, which aim to give AI models a streaming, multisensory, human perspective.

July 2, 20253 min read
Reasoning for No Reason: Anthropic finds chain-of-thought reasoning traces may omit key influences
Machine Learning Research

Reasoning for No Reason: Anthropic finds chain-of-thought reasoning traces may omit key influences

Does a reasoning model’s chain of thought explain how it arrived at its output? Researchers found that often it doesn’t.

July 2, 20252 min read
AI Weather Prediction Gains Traction: U.S. working with Google Weather Lab AI to improve storm forecasts
Machine Learning Research

AI Weather Prediction Gains Traction: U.S. working with Google Weather Lab AI to improve storm forecasts

The U.S. government is using AI to predict the paths of hurricanes.

July 2, 20252 min read
Low Precision, High Performance: Researchers at Microsoft and Tsinghua researchers propose 1.58-bit AI model that rivals full-precision competitors
Machine Learning Research

Low Precision, High Performance: Researchers at Microsoft and Tsinghua researchers propose 1.58-bit AI model that rivals full-precision competitors

Reducing the number of bits used to represent each parameter in a neural network from, say, 16 bits to 8 bits shrinks the network’s size and boosts its speed. Researchers took this approach to an extreme: They built a competitive large language model whose weights are limited to three values.

June 25, 20253 min read
A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research
Machine Learning Research

A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research

An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.

June 25, 20253 min read
Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API
Machine Learning Research

Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API

Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.

June 19, 20254 min read
LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property
Machine Learning Research

LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property

In Northern California, old property deeds may still include racial clauses: language, made illegal decades ago, that was designed to ban people of color from owning or living in certain homes.

June 19, 20252 min read
More Reasoning for Harder Problems: OpenAI debuts o3-pro, an updated reasoning model that applies more tokens at inference
Machine Learning Research

More Reasoning for Harder Problems: OpenAI debuts o3-pro, an updated reasoning model that applies more tokens at inference

OpenAI launched o3-pro, a more capable version of its most advanced reasoning vision-language model.

June 19, 20252 min read
Better Video, Fewer Tokens: STORM Processes Fewer Tokens And Still Beats GPT-4o On Video Understanding Benchmarks
Machine Learning Research

Better Video, Fewer Tokens: STORM Processes Fewer Tokens And Still Beats GPT-4o On Video Understanding Benchmarks

Researchers reduced the number of tokens needed to represent video frames to be fed to a transformer.

June 11, 20252 min read
More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details
Machine Learning Research

More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details

Same character, new background, new action. That’s the focus of the latest text-to-image models from Germany’s Black Forest Labs.

June 11, 20253 min read
Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links
Machine Learning Research

Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links

Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.

June 4, 20252 min read
Next-Level DeepSeek-R1: DeepSeek-R1’s update leads all open models and brings it up to date with the latest from Google and OpenAI
Machine Learning Research

Next-Level DeepSeek-R1: DeepSeek-R1’s update leads all open models and brings it up to date with the latest from Google and OpenAI

DeepSeek updated its groundbreaking DeepSeek-R1 large language model to strike another blow for open-weights performance.

June 4, 20253 min read
How DeepSeek Did It: Researchers describe training methods and hardware choices for DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models
Machine Learning Research

How DeepSeek Did It: Researchers describe training methods and hardware choices for DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models

DeepSeek made headlines late last year, when it built a state-of-the-art, open-weights large language model at a cost far lower than usual. The upstart developer shared new details about its method.

May 28, 20253 min read
Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more
Machine Learning Research

Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more

Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.

May 28, 20253 min read

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