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 …
Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful …
Breadcrumb Innovation & AI Models & research Gemini Models Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech Apr 15, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn …
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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning
For robots to be truly helpful in our daily lives and industries, they must do more than follow instructions, they must reason about the physical world. From navigating a complex facility to …
The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to “a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,” as outlined in the 1949 Lewis …
The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if …
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Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
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. A shorter issue than usual as I was attending …
What makes work valuable? Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Philosophy , investigates the role work plays in our lives and its impact on our …
Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational resources. Traditionally, obtaining a smaller, faster model either requires …
Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. …
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Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
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. Uh oh, there’s a scaling war for cyberattacks …
To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains …
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Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano
MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than doubling the number of new companies from the previous year. Aimed at speeding the …
At the edge, our E2B and E4B models redefine on-device utility, prioritizing multimodal capabilities, low-latency processing and seamless ecosystem integration over raw parameter count. Powerful, …
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an autonomous system can identify a power distribution strategy that …
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Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
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 might let us build “political …
Designers, makers, and others often use 3D printing to rapidly prototype a range of functional objects, from movie props to medical devices. Accurate print previews are essential so users know a …
In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully introduced during …
Providing new places to generate music High-quality music generation should be accessible wherever creativity happens. Whether you are an app developer, a business or music professional, or a creator, …
As AI models get better at holding natural conversations, we must examine how these interactions affect people and society. Building on a breadth of scientific research, today, we are releasing new …
The next time you’re scrolling your phone, take a moment to appreciate the feat: The seemingly mundane act is possible thanks to the coordination of 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and …
Breadcrumb Innovation & AI Models & research Gemini Models Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable Mar 26, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn …
Each spring, river herring populations migrate from Massachusetts coastal waters to begin their annual journey up rivers and streams to freshwater spawning habitat. River herring have faced severe …