Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce DiscoSign, a computational approach for discourse-aware text to sign language gloss translation gr…

Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references. This paradigm suffers from the “one-to-many” nature of video description, where high-q…

Proteins are fundamental to biological processes, with their function determined by the complex interplay between the amino acid sequence and the three-dimensional structure. Developing generative models capable of understanding this intrinsically multi-modal relationship is c…

Machine Intelligence

Amazon SageMaker Inference now offers prefix-aware routing, a routing strategy that sends requests sharing the same prompt prefix to the same instance so the KV cache stays warm. In benchmarks on Llama 3.1 70B, it reduced P50 time-to-first-token by up to 77% and raised KV cach…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for inference, which pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods read from local NVMe storage instead of downloading over the network. Learn how model caching cuts cold starts from tens of minutes…

TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 is now generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, bringing fully managed natural language search to video, image, and audio content. This walkthrough shows how to build a knowledge base powered by Marengo 3.0 and r…

Your teams get an AI assistant that handles real work while your data stays in your environment and your conversations stay private Today, the Amazon Quick desktop application is generally available on macOS and Windows. We’re also adding a new activity feed to the mobile expe…

Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to serve as many concurrent users as... Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to se…

Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn previo…

Learn how to build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow with Amazon Quick Automate. Read a multi-tab RFI workbook from Amazon S3, use natural-language prompts to extract and structure the questionnaire data, refine the workflow through conversation, and write clean CSV out…

A configurable, model-agnostic detector that turns any large language model on Amazon Bedrock into a PII detector. Because the entities to detect live in a prompt rather than in code, one detector adapts to new entity types without retraining, and it outperforms an off-the-she…

The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest and most complex stree…

César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.

Multi-turn agents fail in ways single-turn evaluation misses: one early mistake corrupts every later turn. This post introduces the Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM), a decomposable, turn-level way to measure agent quality, applied to its first dimension, correctness, to pinpoint …

AvioBook, a Thales Group Company, prototyped Connected Analytics on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn AvioBook Connect's operational data into plain-language, evidence-based answers for airline managers and dispatchers, helping them find and act on the causes of flight turnarou…

In our previous posts, we showed how open table formats, open APIs and unified governance...

New research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don’t have enough space to enable memorization.

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.

Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist through the pipeline efficiently. NVIDIA... Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist thr…

The disaggregated storage model of Lakebase Postgres provides a feature rich, flexible...

AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix today announced it will use NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platform — joining a growing roster of partners building on the NVIDIA AI platform. By connecting Raptor to NVIDIA NVLink scale-up…

Gear up: The latest PC games and major updates are ready to play on GeForce NOW this week. WARDOGS drops onto the cloud at early-access launch, alongside the Valheim 1.0 Deep North update and Bus Simulator 27 — part of nine new titles joining the cloud. The newest PC releases …

Cloudera and Mistral join forces to bring specialized, sovereign AI intelligence to enterprise data, helping regulated industries innovate on their own terms.

NVIDIA has one of the largest and most complex supply chains in the world, and its performance is measured from wafer-out to first token. The interval is in two... NVIDIA has one of the largest and most complex supply chains in the world, and its performance is measured from w…

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.

OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.

GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.

Build and launch cloud agents with the Agents API, a managed service powered by the Codex harness for orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use.

Together GPU Clusters now supports preemptible compute: the same GPU capacity at a flat 50% of the on-demand rate, with a five-minute drain window.

We ported ThunderKittens to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 and rebuilt our NVFP4 GEMM around the new hardware, taking it from 42% of roofline to over 22 PFLOPS — competitive with cuBLAS and CuTe DSL. Here is what changed in the ISA and how we used it.

Learn how to deploy Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM. This walkthrough covers cluster provisioning, NVFP4 quantization, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with built-in reasoning, tool calling, and native MTP …

Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation is an inference optimization technique for multimodal models that separates the vision encoder stage from the prefill... Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation is an inference optimization technique for multimodal models that sepa…

Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more from NVIDIA GPUs and the broader NVIDIA software... Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more f…

A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Region inference, agents that run for up to 14 days on dedicated compute, expanded AWS GovCloud availability, and Strand…

Learn how Heurist built Heurist Finance, a conversational AI investment workbench, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This customer story shows how AgentCore payments, Identity, Memory, Code Interpreter, and Observability let a small team buy premium market data per query, isolate a…

Last year at Sibos Frankfurt, the question was whether AI works. This year: can your...

Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.

Solvency II reporting is not only a regulatory submission. It is a business process...

At the IBC conference, running Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam, the creative, technology and business communities are coming together to turn ideas into action and discuss innovations across the media and entertainment industries. More than 44,000 attendees from 170+ countries are ga…

TorchServe is no longer maintained, leaving teams to own the entire GPU inference stack. The AWS Ray Serve Deep Learning Container is a supported, pre-tested container with the framework, GPU drivers, and serving layer already assembled. This post walks through deploying a vis…

Amazon Quick custom permissions let you enforce least-privilege access by toggling features per user. This post walks through four patterns to automate custom permissions across the user lifecycle: a RegisterUser API parameter, account and role defaults, event-driven Amazon Ev…

The challengeEmbedding a Databricks AI/BI Dashboard in a customer-facing application is relatively straightforward...

For 25 years I built software on the practices I grew up with: Kent Beck’s TDD, Martin...

Effective enterprise data agents require search that is both accurate and fast. Earlier...

Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains open.

Mistral helped a European energy operator migrate 40,000 lines of Fortran 77 to C++. Learn how it was done, and the lessons to carry forward.

Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.

Goodfire used Ai2’s fully open post-training stack to predict LLM behavioral changes, trace unwanted model behavior back to individual training examples, and test targeted fixes without sacrificing broader capability gains.

Zepto's Push for Reliable, Real-Time Customer SupportZepto is one of India's fastest-growing...

A deep dive into the open model AI stack — model, inference, gateways and routers, harness, and tools — and how keeping each layer independent lets you swap in a new open model in minutes instead of rebuilding your workflow.

GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. It brings deeper reasoning and sharper judgment to your most demanding tasks, running on the Amazon Bedrock inference engine built for high performance, security, and scale.

Pathway's Baby Dragon Hatchling (BDH) is a brain-inspired, post-transformer architecture that reasons in latent space instead of emitting chain-of-thought tokens. See how Pathway develops and scales BDH on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and how BDH-CQ set a new cost-efficiency mar…

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes. With the new UpdateRecord API, you can update one or more feature values in a single call without reading or rewriting the entire record. It is available for both the Standard (Amazon DynamoDB) and In-Memory (Am…

A SQL data type is a fundamental specification that defines what values a column...

Governing models across accounts is the next step after automatic model registration. This post extends managed MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync to two cross-account governance topologies: a hub-and-spoke pattern that centralizes governance with AWS RAM, and …

Managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker AI now syncs richer model metadata (training metrics, evaluation results, inference specs, and lineage) into the SageMaker AI Model Registry, with lifecycle stage promotion. Part 1 shows how to govern candidate models in a single account usin…

See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

Wire Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations into a GitHub Actions pipeline: deploy an AI agent and an OAuth-protected MCP server to AgentCore runtime, invoke the agent with test prompts, score the responses, and automatically block pull requests when agent behavior regresses.

Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Compare throughput, latency, and cost-per-token, and see how G7's NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver measurable price-perfor…

A personal-loan underwriting agent gathers evidence, applies policy, and may wait...

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Explore how more capable, affordable AI can expand the work people and businesses can accomplish—and make growth more economical.

Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.

In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and... In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are m…

ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.

OpenAI is expanding support for journalism with tools, training, and partnerships for students, educators, journalists, and news organizations.

Engineers at 1Password use Codex to rapidly build new features and internal tools, reaching production-readiness while maintaining rigorous security policies.

OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.

Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.

Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it... Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts w…

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run... Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of…

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook... Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central por…

General Science

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in Octo…

General Science

AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents.... AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and …

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.

September is here with 28 more games streaming on GeForce NOW this month, led by a slam dunk: NBA 2K27 with the NVIDIA DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature. Through NVIDIA’s close collaboration with Visual Concepts and 2K, DLSS 5 brings a new level of lifelike lighting an…

Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.

I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien, Tho…

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

NVIDIA CUDA remains the foundation of GPU-accelerated computing, powering everything from scientific simulations to large-scale AI training. But writing... Source

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and... This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while mainta…

ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.

Most current vision-language-action (VLA) models—such as OpenVLA, π0, RT-2, and RDT-1B—are “monolithic.” This means they generate raw motor commands or very short sequences of actions, without organizing behaviors into reusable, well-defined abstractions. As a result, these mo…

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce Cro…

Climate & Sustainability

Microsoft's 2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report highlights the progress we’ve made in building and deploying AI responsibly, supporting our customers, and strengthening our responsible AI governance, tools, and practices. The post Responsible AI in 2026: How we are adaptin…

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to... AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over l…

The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently... The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point…

BenchMIRT is a new method for auditing LLM benchmarks question by question, revealing which capabilities they actually measure and helping researchers build smaller, more focused, and easier-to-interpret evaluations.

At an Ai2 event marking our expanded collaboration with Providence Swedish, researchers explored the hardest problems in AI-assisted science: keeping systems steerable, grounded in human judgment and sound methods, and responsive to new evidence and experiments.

Data Management

Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next.... Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and …

What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and broader exploration. The post GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward populat…

A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle... A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from…

How the Verus "program verifier", which automatically checks code against a mathematical specification of its functionality, helps increase security assurance in software projects.

Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing,... Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific con…

Modern AI systems are being deployed in complex domains such as medicine, science, and law, where there is often not a single correct answer given the observed evidence. Such systems must be able to represent and update uncertain beliefs about the world as new evidence arrives…

Evaluating AI agents that use external tools requires realistic test scenarios that capture how practitioners compose tools and iterate across conversation turns. Constructing such scenarios by hand demands deep domain expertise, does not scale across tool ecosystems, and prod…

We ran 900 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3 Flash. Flash gives up 5.6 points of pass@1 at 17x lower cost, and only 2.6 points at pass@4.

Earth AI

NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s next for GeForce NOW, with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud. New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology controls give members more ways to fine-tune gameplay, while e…

NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck hand-delivers Vera CPU systems across the AI ecosystem as Vera begins shipping at scale.

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Ai2 and Providence Swedish Cancer Institute are expanding their collaboration after AutoDiscovery helped researchers uncover and validate a promising new immune signal in invasive lobular breast cancer.

Designing effective reward signals for open-domain question answering is challenging because high-quality responses must simultaneously satisfy multiple aspects of answer quality that are difficult to capture with a holistic scalar objective. We introduce a rubric-based reward…

AI factories must support increasingly large models and more complex reasoning workloads. To keep up with the insatiable compute demands of AI workloads,... AI factories must support increasingly large models and more complex reasoning workloads. To keep up with the insatiable…

The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the performance of AI infrastructure depends not only on compute, but on how compute, memory, storage, networking and software are designed together a…

Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to... Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produ…

Health & Bioscience

Discounting the opinions of LLM judges with highly correlated outputs ensures that panels of judges reflect a true diversity of perspectives.

Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s... Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for devel…

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

Discover how organizations use AI to personalize engagement, strengthen relationships, and deliver more responsive experiences at scale. The post Accelerating Frontier Transformation: Reinvent customer engagement appeared first on The Microsoft Cloud Blog.

Thai researchers adapted Ai2’s open Dolma toolkit to build Mangosteen, a 47-billion-token Thai corpus that filters low-quality web data while maintaining or improving model performance and strengthening Thai cultural knowledge.

Supervised fine-tuning on teacher-generated trajectories is the standard first stage for distilling tool-calling capabilities into deployable models. Post-training pipelines that drive shipped tool-calling agents re-run this stage on a daily or weekly cadence, paying the front…

Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown promise in token efficiency compared to training target-size models from scratch. In this paper,…

High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representation should include physically based rendering (PBR) modalities such as albedo, …

When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights into HBM from storage, compiling kernels,... When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights …

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

What we learned while building black-box and white-box detectors for AI deception during Aletheia's Quest.

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and devel…

Discover how Microsoft Marketplace intelligent discovery helps organizations find, compare, and adopt AI solutions faster and with confidence. The post Accelerating AI adoption with intelligent discovery in Microsoft Marketplace appeared first on The Microsoft Cloud Blog.

For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and... For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to wr…

Learn the five signals of trusted AI, from AI governance and security to observability and sovereignty, and discover how organizations scale AI with confidence. The post 5 signals of trusted AI: How organizations scale AI with security, governance, and observability appeared f…

The massive growth of generative AI has fundamentally altered data center design. As distributed model training scales to span hundreds of thousands of GPUs,... The massive growth of generative AI has fundamentally altered data center design. As distributed model training scal…

To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. That requires AI infrastructure designed and built as a full factory, not a collec…

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Vera Rubin NVL72 with fast token generation for agentic systems. Announced today…

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries financial databases, searches news and filings, invokes a sub-a…

AI agents have expanded inference from single-turn interactions into multi-step workflows that reason, invoke tools, coordinate subagents, and carry growing... AI agents have expanded inference from single-turn interactions into multi-step workflows that reason, invoke tools, …

Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Agentic AI factories connect diverse users,... Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Ag…

Generative AI

Extendable framework enables testing agents on the full set of capabilities required to successfully complete a procedure, not isolated proxy tasks.

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

Algorithms & Theory

A Georgia Tech team used Ai2’s fully open Olmo stack to trace social reasoning back to the training data that shaped it, finding that dialogue-rich, interpersonal writing had an outsized influence on the capability.

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 3.7 points; GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 at half the cost, and a GLM-first cascade hits 85.9%.

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5. A tie on pass@1, but GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 and costs 5.4x less: \$3.99 per rollout vs. \$21.63.

Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a living benchmark to track computational performance. The post Broadening access t…

It’s a new way into the cloud. GeForce NOW welcomes Firefox support to the cloud, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming straight from the browser, starting today. Whether on a school laptop or everyday PC, it’s now even easier to play supported PC game…

The retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside even the most complex documents

Researchers used Olmo 3 and its open training data to show that models can infer a drug’s class from its name instead of knowing the specific medication, and traced that shortcut to how often drugs appeared in training.

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 10 points at 35x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 83.0%.

AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is revenue. AI factories require a full stack of critical resources: advanced ch…

General Science

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Claude Fable 5. Fable leads pass@1 at 90x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 82.7%.

Shadow traffic proves a candidate is operationally sound. It can't tell you if users like it better. Run the split at the endpoint instead of in your app code.

A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities appeared first on Microsof…

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

Generative AI

Health & Bioscience

Ten years after we founded the Automated Reasoning Group, mathematical logic has moved from academic research into production services that secure millions of customer workloads — demonstrating that systems can be provably correct, not just probably correct.

Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-based tools for chest X-ray interpretation. The post Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs wit…

Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap for the world.

A competition with a finalist ceremony during NeurIPS 2026, challenging researchers to train language models from scratch on Trainium, exploring what optimal architectures look like when the hardware changes.

TutorMoments is an open, replay-based evaluation framework that tests whether AI tutors can recognize when to support a student and when to hold back and encourage deeper reasoning.

Ai2 is expanding its partnership with Hugging Face to give its growing portfolio of fully open models, datasets, benchmarks, and applications the storage, bandwidth, and integrations needed to reach more researchers and developers.

We ran 900 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek-V4 Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna. Luna leads pass@1 by 14 points; DeepSeek delivers 4.8x the solves per dollar.

Amazon announces 34 recipients of the Build on Trainium program, a $110 million credit initiative supporting AI research at 30 universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UCLA, CMU, and MIT, with a focus on Responsible AI.

See how AI enriches employee experience: Frontier organizations help people grow, do meaningful work, and thrive, beyond time saved. The post Accelerating Frontier Transformation: Enrich employee experience appeared first on The Microsoft Cloud Blog.

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure. The post Orchard: An open f…

Kimi K3 is the first open 3T-class model. See how it benchmarks, what it costs, and how to call it on the Together AI API, with copy-paste code examples.

Stony Brook researchers used our infini-gram engine to trace distinctive phrases in AI-generated writing back to existing sources, finding that top-selling self-published books on Amazon with substantial detected AI text overlap more heavily with rare language from previously …

GPU utilization can read healthy while your queue backs up, and a new replica takes minutes to warm. Here's how to pick autoscaling metrics, tune scale-up/down windows, and budget for cold starts on dedicated inference.

General Science

Instead of compromising among parameter updates dictated by different training objectives, ControlG allocates computational capacity to objectives sequentially and dynamically.

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve. The post Echoverse:…

LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn and adapt across tasks long after deployment. The post EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge appeared firs…

I drink a lot of tea. English breakfast, usually, in a real cup, every day. So when my team came to me with an idea for a new series, they wanted it to be relatable, and honestly, I was hesitant at first. But at the end of the day, the name captured something I find genuinely …

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

Throughout this past fiscal year, customers across every industry and segment moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes. They unlocked innovation and created new opportunities for growth. The post Looking back on Microsoft’s FY26: From AI e…

PatientAgentBench generates a synthetic patient health record, a realistic clinical vignette, and a patient agent that converses with the AI system under evaluation, to capture what a patient-facing agent actually has to do.

Together AI partners with Moonshot AI to natively serve Kimi models, starting with the 2.8T parameter Kimi K3, with day zero access and post-training.

The three-part resource model behind Together AI Dedicated Model Inference—endpoints, deployments, configs—and how capacity-aware routing ties them together.

ThunderAgent is a program-aware scheduler for agentic inference. By treating each agent workflow as a schedulable program, it eliminates KV cache thrashing to deliver more than 2x single-node throughput and near-linear multi-node scaling.

How we built the OlmoEarth Platform to fine-tune geospatial models and run continent-scale satellite inference while managing massive data pipelines, distributed compute, and automatically recovering from failures at scale.

As AI agents take on higher-stakes decisions, Lean programming language makes it possible to mathematically prove they will behave safely.

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on Kimi K3 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1; Kimi K3 wins pass@4 at 2.8x the solves per dollar, and routing between them reaches ~85.6%.

Why fully open models and research artifacts are essential to independent scrutiny, broader participation, and continued U.S. scientific leadership in AI.

We ran 452 DeepSWE rollouts on Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5. Fable leads pass@1 by 1.4 points; Kimi K3 wins pass@4 and delivers 2.8x the solves per dollar.

Discover how nonprofits are applying AI to strengthen communities, expand opportunity, and create lasting impact across the globe. The post Inside nonprofits using AI to extend their impact appeared first on The Microsoft Cloud Blog.

Run open models in production with full control over performance, cost, and quality. Deploy in minutes, roll out safely, and scale to your SLOs.

General Science

Machine Intelligence

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

Explore Microsoft’s AI Strategy Roadmap and learn how organizations can move beyond AI pilots to build trusted, measurable AI capabilities across the enterprise. The post The AI Strategy Roadmap: Five drivers of successful AI transformation appeared first on The Microsoft Clou…

No more two-year compute contracts. Together AI and YC just gave YC startups a faster way to get GPUs.

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

Reliability numbers are easy to publish. We break down what 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% uptime actually require, the failure domains each tier has to survive, and the questions to ask any inference provider before you commit.

Algorithms & Theory

Together AI offers day zero access to Inkling, Thinking Machines Lab's multimodal mixture-of-experts model for text, image, and audio reasoning.

See how Together AI is improving production GPU clusters with passive health checks, node repair, stronger Slurm reliability, OIDC, and startup scripts.

Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets implemented and evolves. The post Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standar…