MIT master’s student Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Now in its ninth year, the highly competitive scholarship provides up to three …
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Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Regulate? Don’t regulate. …
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Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere”
“Artificial intelligence is not just for computer scientists anymore; it’s going to permeate every aspect of our lives and influence every business,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. The world is …
MIT’s Universal Learning is a new initiative from MIT Open Learning designed to prepare learners everywhere to tackle complex global challenges through boundary-crossing thinking. Universal …
Improving AI infrastructure AlphaEvolve has graduated from pilot testing to becoming a core component of our infrastructure. AlphaEvolve has been used as a regular tool to optimize the design of the …
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going to wipe out workers broadly, in the name of greater efficiency. But a study …
Overview of adaptive parallel reasoning. What if a reasoning model could decide for itself when to decompose and parallelize independent subtasks, how many concurrent threads to spawn, and how to …
Gabriele Farina grew up in a small town in a hilly winemaking region of northern Italy. Neither of his parents had college degrees, and although both were convinced they “didn’t understand math,” …
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. AI systems are about to start building …
When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life …
The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological activity with brain function and detect problems early, …
“The thing that really struck me when I came to MIT and strikes me every single day is the stuff that’s going on here is amazing. The science, the engineering… every day I hear something that makes my …
Engineering trust with safeguards for clinical-grade AI The transition and deployment of AI into clinical environments requires uncompromising architectural and operational safeguards. In our research …
In today’s hospitals and clinics, a dermatologist may use an artificial intelligence model for classifying skin lesions to assess if the lesion is at risk of developing into a cancer or if it is …
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The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM. IBM and MIT today announced the launch of the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, advancing their long-standing …
A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This advance could enable a wider array of …
Bringing frontier AI models to Koreaâs scientific community Koreaâs Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) has recently launched the K-Moonshot Missions, an initiative aimed at unlocking step-change …
Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S. electricity by 2028 , according to the Lawrence Berkeley National …
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MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone
Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then …
Decoupled DiLoCo is not only more resilient to failures, but is also practical for executing production-level, fully distributed pre-training. We successfully trained a 12 billion parameter model …
Confidence is persuasive. In artificial intelligence systems, it is often misleading. Today’s most capable reasoning models share a trait with the loudest voice in the room: They deliver every …
We’re joining forces with Accenture, Bain & Company, BCG, Deloitte, and McKinsey to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world. Artificial intelligence (AI) could contribute …
GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a âworld modelâ) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the trajectory into virtual states so optimization is …
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Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
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. Huawei’s HiFloat4 training format beats …
MIT Associate Professor Jacob Andreas of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EECS] and MIT Associate Professor Brett McGuire of the Department of Chemistry have been …