Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
Machine Learning Research

Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

March 19, 20253 min read
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Machine Learning Research

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
Machine Learning Research

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
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Machine Learning Research

DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1

Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.

March 12, 20252 min read
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Machine Learning Research

DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1

Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.

March 12, 20252 min read
Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously
Machine Learning Research

Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously

Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.

March 12, 20253 min read
Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously
Machine Learning Research

Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously

Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.

March 12, 20253 min read
Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models
Machine Learning Research

Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models

Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.

March 12, 20252 min read
Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models
Machine Learning Research

Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models

Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.

March 12, 20252 min read
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Machine Learning Research

Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

March 5, 20253 min read
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Machine Learning Research

Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

March 5, 20253 min read
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
Machine Learning Research

OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.

March 5, 20253 min read
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
Machine Learning Research

OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.

March 5, 20253 min read
Text Generation by Diffusion: Mercury Coder uses diffusion to generate text
Machine Learning Research

Text Generation by Diffusion: Mercury Coder uses diffusion to generate text

Typical large language models are autoregressive, predicting the next token, one at a time, from left to right. A new model hones all text tokens at once.

March 5, 20252 min read
Text Generation by Diffusion: Mercury Coder uses diffusion to generate text
Machine Learning Research

Text Generation by Diffusion: Mercury Coder uses diffusion to generate text

Typical large language models are autoregressive, predicting the next token, one at a time, from left to right. A new model hones all text tokens at once.

March 5, 20252 min read

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