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As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence. Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the …
Updated September 17, 2026 Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more …
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The …
“Our mission is to convert waste plastic pollution into durable composites to build 1 billion homes,” says Atlas chair and co-founder A.J. Perez ’13, MNG ’14, PhD ’23, who is also an MIT research …
As it happens, Egami’s interests range widely. Years ago, before the current artificial intelligence craze, he started studying what happens when AI tools are introduced into studies. How accurate are …
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer …
Researchers created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient’s preoperative 3D medical scan. This method could make it easier for clinicians to …
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Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed for intelligent voice interactions. Unlike conventional speech recognition models that struggle with …
Building trust in proprietary model benchmarks using cryptographically secure environments Imagine a student is set to take a high-stakes exam. If they accidentally peek at the test questions in …
Today, we’re introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to support developers. Gemini Omni brought real-world reasoning to generative …
Today, we’re launching agentic video understanding across our latest models: Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite. This new capability improves accuracy while dramatically reducing token …
Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across enterprise codebases, or turn to …
Building on the momentum of 3.7 Flash from three weeks ago and marking our third Flash release in only six weeks, today we’re introducing Gemini 3.8, our best reasoning and coding model yet, at the …
Real-world data at continuous global scale WeatherNext 3’s biggest leap forward is what it learns from. Most AI weather models, including WeatherNext 2, are trained on data from numerical …
Acknowledgements We are grateful to our research collaborators at University of Exeter, Broad Institute, Boston Childrenâs Hospital, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Harvard University, …
A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Many methods for designing …
The MIT Quantum Initiative (QMIT) has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate interdisciplinary quantum research and develop the next generation of scientific leaders working at …
Before graduate school, Kumar grew up in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on several projects at the intersection of technology and mental health or psychology …
It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers …
Walter Torous , senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management , and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development …
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency …
A collaborative model for expanding AI education Bringing the program to life required broad collaboration across the college, including support from leadership, staff, and contributions from more …
