Open with CtrlK — press Esc to close
Tag
Everything we've published on AI Methods: articles, news, opinion and video.
Spring in the Altai arrives as a boundary moving down through the soil. The frozen layer that has held since autumn softens from the top, water becomes available to roots, and whatever grows there…
Imagine two people on the phone, each holding a photograph. Neither can see the other's. Their job is to decide whether the two pictures are the same and, if not, to find the difference. This is a…
A drainage crew has until Thursday evening to decide: put the flood barriers out, or leave them in the depot. The forecast offers a probability of heavy rain, not a promise of it. Deploying costs a…
A ball comes in at a humanoid robot standing in a Caltech lab. It has no motion-capture rig watching the room, no external tracker, no operator feeding it coordinates. All it has is a camera on its…
Every quantum computer that corrects its own errors is running a race against itself. The hardware measures its qubits over and over, thousands of times a second, and each round produces a small…
The brain runs on roughly the wattage of a dim light bulb. A large AI model can draw the output of a small power plant. That gap is the quiet motivation behind a whole field of research, and behind a…
The hardest part was never the motor. It was the listening. When a person's hand still works, the brain sends a clean order down the nerves and the muscles snap to it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
Time on a synchrotron beamline is one of the scarcer resources in experimental science. These facilities (building-sized machines that whip electrons around a ring to produce intense X-rays) are…
Ask a large language model why it answered the way it did and it will happily tell you. The problem is that the answer it gives and the computation it ran are not the same thing. Somewhere inside, a…
A launch chart and an independent audit looked at the same model this week and came away telling almost opposite stories. On 26 June, OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 "Sol," presenting its own benchmark…
When a new large language model launches, the release blog almost always comes with a table of benchmarks colored in its own favor. Kimi K3's did too. Moonshot AI, the Beijing lab behind the Kimi…
Every flood map carries a quiet assumption: that the future's worst storm will look something like the past's. Engineers size a levee or price an insurance policy against a "one-in-100-year" event,…