Wipro partners with IISc and FSID for AI and quantum research collaboration
Right now Indian companies seem to be reaching out more to university labs for projects that could either flop spectacularly or pay off big.
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Research & Benchmarks - Page 5
Academic research, performance benchmarks, scientific breakthroughs, and peer-reviewed studies advancing AI frontiers.
Google expands AI partnership with Tel Aviv University, infrastructure for Gemma
Google is expanding its AI research tie-up with Tel Aviv University by rolling out a dedicated computing environment aimed at the most demanding experiments.
Alibaba's AgentEvolver lifts tool-use accuracy ~30% via auto‑generated tasks
Alibaba’s fresh AgentEvolver model seems to push tool-use accuracy up by about 30 percent. Instead of spending weeks hand-picking examples, the team let the system cook up its own synthetic tasks on the fly.
Set Seed in XLMiner: Use Integer 12345, 42, 2024 for Consistent Partitions
Ever hit “Run” in XLMiner, only to see the training-test split shuffle and your regression numbers jump around? It’s usually not the data - it’s the random seed that the add-in picks behind the scenes.
Karpathy says AI‑homework crackdown failed, urges in‑class grading shift
Andrej Karpathy - the guy who used to run Tesla’s AI team - isn’t shy about the new school rules trying to flag AI-written work. He says the “war on AI homework” isn’t really winning; it’s pricey and, frankly, not that effective.
Digital Connexion to Invest USD 11 Billion in Andhra Pradesh AI Data Centres
Digital Connexion just announced an $11 billion plan to put up AI-focused data centres in Andhra Pradesh - a sum that, if it materialises, could change the local tech scene.
Cecilia Heyes labels language a 'cognitive gadget' for precise social learning
Ever wonder if the way we chat actually shapes the way we think? It seems language gives our mental toolbox a boost, but it’s not the only thing doing the heavy lifting.
DOE orders cloud, labs, and network integration for AI Genesis mission in 90 days
Last week the DOE announced what officials are calling the Genesis mission - a rush to cobble together the computing power needed for a new AI-driven research push.
CrowdStrike's Stein finds DeepSeek‑R1 adds 50% more bugs on Chinese prompts
When Stefan Stein, who leads CrowdStrike’s Counter Adversary Operations, decided to stress-test DeepSeek-R1, he didn’t just throw a few queries at it. He fed the model 30,250 prompts, most of them ordinary.
Microsoft's Fara-7B AI agent, rival to GPT‑4o, runs on PC, logs 145k tasks
When Microsoft announced Fara-7B, I was surprised to see a computer-use AI that actually runs on a Windows PC. They pitch it as a “rival” to OpenAI’s GPT-4o, promising everyday software tasks without any cloud connection.
Authors retract brain-mapping paper after reviewers flag fabricated citations
I was scrolling through a pre-print server and saw a headline that a team had cracked a way to “interpretably map” brain activity - basically a shortcut to reading thoughts. The claim sounded huge, but the paper never cleared peer review.
CrewAI Introduces Function-Based Guardrails for Rule‑Based Output Constraints
CrewAI just rolled out a new twist for language-model agents that they’re calling “function-based guardrails.” In plain terms, it lets developers stick clear-cut rules right into the agent’s output flow.
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