Alibaba DAMO Academy has unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source model for robot control capable of interpreting its environment and making real-world decisions.
Liquid AI has introduced LFM2-24B, a 24-billion-parameter language model capable of outperforming larger competitors with significantly lower memory requirements.
AI: Events
How AliSQL Stores Vectors and Performs Similarity Searches: An Inside Look at Its Internal Mechanics
Technical context • Infrastructure
AliSQL now supports vector data. We explain how storage and similarity search are implemented in this database designed for artificial intelligence tasks.
AI: Events
Zero Bubbles and Flexible Pipelines: How AMD Accelerates Large Language Model Training
Technical context • Infrastructure
AMD has unveiled Primus, an implementation of pipeline parallelism for large model training that eliminates idle time and flexibly adapts to various tasks.
Lab
When an Algorithm Learns to Control Chaos: Gradient Methods for Nonlinear Systems
Electrical Engineering & System Sciences
A deep dive into how to teach a control system to work with unknown nonlinearities without ideal data – using real-world court sentences and numerical experiments as examples.
NeuroBlog
Why Does 'Frozen Smoke' Save Astronauts and Your Wallet?
Science & Technology • Technologies
Aerogel is a material that's 99% air, yet it can support a brick and protect from hellish heat. We're breaking down how it works and where it's used.
AI: Events
OpenHands Index: How Developers Are Improving the Evaluation of AI Coding Agents
Research
The OpenHands team explains how their benchmark for evaluating AI agents works and why conventional metrics don't always reflect the true picture.
AI: Events
DeepSeek on New NVIDIA Hardware: What's Changed for Long-Text Processing
Technical context • Infrastructure
NVIDIA and LMSYS tested the DeepSeek model on the latest GB300 accelerator. The results showed a significant improvement compared to the previous generation.
Two key libraries for running AI models on everyday devices have joined forces with Hugging Face – and it could change the future of local AI.