New models, papers, and benchmarks
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Most AI benchmarks test whether a model can recall the right answer. TRACES, introduced today by Apodex, asks a harder question: can an AI system actually investigate a problem it hasn't seen before, form hypotheses, use tools, and arrive at a verifiable solution? The benchmark comes with a
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A massive seed round just landed in the world-model space. Veeda, a new startup building world models and led by Sanja Fidler — formerly Nvidia's VP of AI Research — has raised over $90 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, according to The Logic. World
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An open-source model family just posted numbers that rival one of the most capable closed models in the world — and it's available under an MIT license. Ornith 1.5, released today by the Ornith AI team, is a three-model family spanning 9 billion dense parameters up
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Apple's machine learning research team released a paper today that takes a hard look at how large language models mimic human behavior — and whether they should. The study, published on Apple's ML Research blog, analyzed 21,000 multi-turn conversations across four major models: GPT-4o,
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AI drug discovery keeps promising cancer cures — but the models are training on the wrong data. Vivodyne, a University of Pennsylvania spinout, says the industry's fundamental problem isn't compute or algorithms; it's that most AI models learn from animal tests, single cells, or static
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The 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing on Monday with a milestone that puts embodied AI on the radar of anyone who follows the field: a humanoid robot completed the world's first fully autonomous table-tennis match — not a scripted rally, but a real game with serving,
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NVIDIA is betting that the future of robotics lives at the edge, not in the cloud. At the RSS 2026 conference in Sydney, the company's physical AI team laid out detailed technical specs for Cosmos 3 — a fully open-source world foundation model that unifies text, vision, audio,
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Alibaba's latest open-source release is turning heads: Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter model that runs on personal computers, has crossed one million downloads within days of launch and is outperforming models several times its size on independent benchmarks. The model scored 52 on the Artificial
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Anthropic just put wet-lab numbers on a claim it has been making for months: a general agent can run a specialist's early-stage biology workflow, not just talk about it. Anthropic said Tuesday that Claude designed de novo protein binders against 15 targets and produced confirmed binders
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The push to make humanoid robots genuinely useful took an unusual detour today: a Chinese startup strapped one into a go-kart. Symbiosis Robotics (共生知行) put a bipedal humanoid into a go-kart's driver's seat, and the machine drove a closed-circuit lap — hands on the
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World models keep crossing out of the research demo into something you can actually steer — and the newest one to break the frontier comes from a Chinese lab better known for image generation. ZhiXiang WeiLai's HiDream-O1-World is an interactive, native all-modal world model, and its
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World models have grown eerily good at rendering explorable scenes in real time — and just as eerily mute. Noiz AI, backed by researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua, Carnegie Mellon and Google DeepMind, is the team that finally filled the silence in. Noiz AI released HelixWorld