Month: April 2025

Tiny, soft robot flexes its potential as a life saver

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine ...

Unlocking insights with generative AI and multiple foundation models

When you get the best route from Google Maps, explore a new place in Street View, look at your neighbourhood on Google Earth, or ...

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. ...

Touchlessly moving cells: Biotech automation and an acoustically levitating diamond

Engineers at a University of Bristol spin-out company have created a new technology that can move cells without touching them, enabling critical tasks that ...

Physicists uncover electronic interactions mediated via spin waves

Groundbreaking research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations ...

Evaluating progress of LLMs on scientific problem-solving

Programmatic and model-based evaluations Tasks in CURIE are varied and have ground-truth annotations in mixed and heterogeneous form, e.g., as JSONs, latex equations, YAML ...

Taking a responsible path to AGI

We’re exploring the frontiers of AGI, prioritizing readiness, proactive risk assessment, and collaboration with the wider AI community. Artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI that’s ...

Evaluating potential cybersecurity threats of advanced AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a cornerstone of cybersecurity. From malware detection to network traffic analysis, predictive machine learning models and other narrow ...

A novel benchmark for evaluating cross-lingual knowledge transfer in LLMs

Data creation and verification To construct ECLeKTic, we started by selecting articles that only exist in a single language on Wikipedia for 12 languages ...