Ray Kurzweil ’70 strengthens his optimism about technological advances | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

Innovator, futurist, and author Ray Kurzweil ’70 emphasized his optimism about advances in artificial intelligence and technology in general in a speech Wednesday while accepting the Robert A. Mu Alumni Award from MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). Kurzweil offered his signature attention-grabbing predictions about how AI and computing will fully integrate…

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Together AI’s ATLAS Adaptive Speculator speeds up inference by 400% by learning from workloads in real time

Companies expanding their AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. Who is the culprit? Static speculators that cannot keep up with changing workloads. Speculators are small AI models that operate in parallel with larger language models during inference. We draft multiple tokens in advance and the main model validates them in parallel. This technique,…

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Echelon’s AI agent takes aim at Accenture and Deloitte’s consulting models

echelonan artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, is coming out of stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding. Bain Capital Venturesaims to fundamentally change the way companies deploy and maintain critical business systems. The San Francisco-based company has developed an AI agent specifically trained to handle end-to-end ServiceNow Deployment — Deploying…

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MIT Schwarzman School of Computing and MBZUAI begin international collaboration to shape the future of AI | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

MIT Schwarzman School of Computing and Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) recently celebrated the launch of the MIT-MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program, a new initiative to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its application to pressing scientific and societal challenges. Under the five-year agreement, faculty, students, and research staff from…

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New memory framework builds AI agents that can cope with real-world unpredictability

researchers University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Google Cloud AI research developed a framework that allows large-scale language model (LLM) agents to organize their experiences into memory banks and get better at complex tasks over time. A framework called mystery bankextracts “generalizable inference strategies” from the agent’s successful and unsuccessful problem-solving attempts. Agents use this…

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Crypto traders make millions, Zhao calls BNB meme season

Cryptocurrency traders have made millions of dollars on BNB chains’ small-scale mew coins over the past week, showing a new wave of speculative capital fueling the current market cycle. According to blockchain intelligence platform LookonChain, some of the most profitable investors are traders 0xD0A2, who turned their initial investment of $3,500 to $7.9 million, generating…

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