AI Research Dispatch

AI research dispatch tracking model releases, lab updates, benchmarks, safety work, and academic papers with links to primary or source materials and context.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model. Built for high-volume developer workloads at scale, 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers high …

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Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics

During a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Ivy Mahncke, an undergraduate student of robotics engineering at Olin College of Engineering, took a hands-on approach to testing algorithms for …

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New method could increase LLM training efficiency

Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks …

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After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we …

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Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable

Many of the latest large language models (LLMs) are designed to remember details from past conversations or store user profiles, enabling these models to personalize responses. But researchers from …

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Import AI 438: Silent sirens, flashing for us all

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: …