Three ways AI is learning to understand the physical world

Large language models lack grounding in physical causality — a gap world models are designed to fill. Here's how three distinct architectural approaches (JEPA, Gaussian splats, and end-to-end ...
Scientific American

Can you solve these language puzzles? Test your skills with these problems from North America’s biggest linguistics competition

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Nvidia says it can shrink LLM memory 20x without changing model weights

Nvidia's KV Cache Transform Coding (KVTC) compresses LLM key-value cache by 20x without model changes, cutting GPU memory costs and time-to-first-token by up to 8x for multi-turn AI applications.
SpaceNews

Boeing demonstrates large language model for space-grade hardware

Boeing engineers Kevin Kwak (foreground) and Klaus Okkelberg confer with fellow team members Arvel Chappell III and Andrew Riha (both on-screen), who worked together to prototype a large language ...
marktechpost

How to Align Large Language Models with Human Preferences Using Direct Preference Optimization, QLoRA, and Ultra-Feedback

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Direct Preference Optimization workflow to align a large language model with human preferences without using a reward model. We combine TRL’s DPOTrainer ...
Fast Company

Are LTMs the next LLMs? This new type of AI can do what large-language models can’t

Large-language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, but they’re only one type of underlying AI model. An under-the-radar company, Fundamental, is set to bring a new type of enterprise AI model ...
Business Wire

Carbon Robotics Launches the World’s First-Ever Large Plant Model

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Robotics, a worldwide leader in agriculture AI and robotics, today announced a major breakthrough for global agriculture with the launch of the world’s first Large ...
MIT Technology Review

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models

In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs. Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian ...
MIT Technology Review

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...
Business Wire

Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-4.7, a New Generation Large Language Model Built for Real Development Workflows

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Z.ai released GLM-4.7 ahead of Christmas, marking the latest iteration of its GLM large language model family. As open-source models move beyond chat-based applications and ...
Futurism

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...