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A 535-billion-parameter model is training right now with its code, data mixture, loss curves, and even its failures posted in public as they happen. The Marin project started the run this week and wants the world to watch the experiment unfold rather than read about it in a
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A Chinese lab just started what it bills as the largest fully-open large-model training run ever — and it wants the world to watch it happen in real time, not read about the results after the fact. Marin has begun training a 535-billion-parameter MoE model with its
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IJCAI-ECAI 2026 closed in Bremen over the weekend with an awards slate that reads like a map of AI's past and future — and a participation report that exposed a widening gap between who produces AI research and who actually shows up. China submitted more than 4,000
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The hardest leaderboard in robotics has a new number one — and this time, anyone can download it. Dexmal's DM0.5, an open-weight vision-language-action model, has taken first place on RoboDojo, according to Dexmal and QbitAI's report on the leaderboard. Its composite score of
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A question that has stumped mathematicians since 1948 — and tripped up some of the field's most decorated names — appears to have finally fallen, with Claude helping a Harvard mathematician build the answer rather than search for it. In a year already full of AI math milestones, this one
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A new Apple machine-learning paper takes aim at one of the more expensive habits of multimodal models: rendering future frames to "see" where a video is heading. Its move is to push that thinking into training — and drop frame generation at inference entirely. Apple researchers show video
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ShengShu founder Zhu Jun used a World Robot Conference keynote to put a name and structure on where embodied AI is heading: a five-level roadmap for a general world model he argues must unify generating the world, interacting with it, and acting inside it — not a stack of separate
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A child picks up its mother tongue after hearing maybe 100 million words. A frontier model needs trillions. MIT Technology Review takes a long look at the divide researchers call the data-efficiency gap, why it's quietly becoming the industry's biggest problem, and what closing it
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Alibaba's research arm, DAMO Academy, has published a medical-imaging AI model in Nature Medicine that reads the contrast-enhanced CT scans radiologists already order and flags liver cancers the human eye missed. In a two-month deployment inside a routine clinical workflow, the model helped clinicians find
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Anthropic's next lineup has leaked the old-fashioned way: developers spotted two never-announced models, claude-marshmallow-eap and claude-melon-eap, sitting in the company's API. Multiple developers confirmed both codenames through API access and Discord, and early testers report that Marshmallow's conversational
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Two signals about where AI's center of gravity sits right now: a Japanese survey says the strongest open model is now beating closed giants on trust — and the talent war for the people who build them keeps escalating. Nikkei's joint survey with Weights & Biases has
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Alibaba's video generator just graduated from beta to a real product — and its two flagship tricks, half-a-minute single-shot clips and slides that film themselves, aim straight at business users rather than filmmakers. Alibaba Cloud officially launched Wan3.0 on Monday, taking its video-generation model