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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-Idea An occasional essay series: My …
In 1928, London was in the middle of a terrible health crisis, devastated by bacterial diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis, and meningitis. Confined in sterile laboratories, scientists and doctors …
The State Space Model taking on Transformers Right now, AI is eating the world. And by AI, I mean Transformers. Practically all the big breakthroughs in AI over the last few years are due to …
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer products like ChatGPT are powered by Large …
AI models reflect, and often exaggerate, existing gender biases from the real world. It is important to quantify such biases present in models in order to properly address and mitigate them. In this …
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this …
This post is cowritten by Jeff Boudier, Simon Pagezy, and Florent Gbelidji from Hugging Face. Agentic AI systems represent an evolution from conversational AI to autonomous agents capable of complex …
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these …
What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically …
“In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence.” –Terry Winograd The recent successes of …
Announcing a new, open suite of tools for language model interpretability Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of incredible feats of reasoning, yet their internal decision-making processes remain …
Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. With this release, we’re making …
Tackling global challenges and opportunities at scale Our work throughout 2025 demonstrates how AI-enabled scientific progress is being directly applied to address the world’s most critical and …
Today, Veo is getting more expressive, with improvements that help you create more fun, creative, high-quality videos based on ingredient images, built directly for the mobile format. We’re excited to …
Introducing D4RT, a unified AI model for 4D scene reconstruction and tracking across space and time. Anytime we look at the world, we perform an extraordinary feat of memory and prediction. We see and …
In August, we previewed Genie 3 , a general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environments. Even in this early form, trusted testers were able to create an impressive …
Collaborating with experts on 18 research problems, an advanced version of Gemini Deep Think helped resolve long-standing bottlenecks across algorithms, ML and combinatorial optimization, information …
Today, we’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think , our specialized reasoning mode, built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and …
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of …
We introduce Anthology , a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of …
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning [ ](https://bair.berkeley.edu/static/blog/rl_av_smoothing/megavandertest.mp4) We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into …
Whether you’re a scientist brainstorming research ideas or a CEO hoping to automate a task in human resources or finance, you’ll find that artificial intelligence tools are becoming the assistants you …
A firm that wants to use a large language model (LLM) to summarize sales reports or triage customer inquiries can choose between hundreds of unique LLMs with dozens of model variations, each with …
In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5. They talked about MIT, the …
