We’ve heard (and written about) a lot here at VentureBeat about the generative AI race between the US and China, as they are the countries with the most active groups developing new models (hat tip to Canada’s Cohere and France’s Mistral). But right now, Korean startups are making waves. Last week, a company known as…
During the early stages of development, tissues and organs begin to bloom as thousands of cells move, divide, and grow. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a minute-by-minute method to predict how individual cells will fold, divide, and rearrange themselves during the early stages of fruit fly development. This new method may one…
Picture this: You’re sitting in a conference room in the middle of a vendor pitch. The demo is solid and the price is within your budget. The timeline also seems reasonable. Everyone is nodding along. You are literally minutes away from saying yes. Then someone from the finance team comes in. They look at the…
Important points In 2025, oil-related capital in the Gulf, including sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and private banking networks, has emerged as a major influence on Bitcoin’s liquidity dynamics. These investors are primarily entering Bitcoin through regulated channels such as spot ETFs. Abu Dhabi is at the center of this change, supported by a large…
As language models (LMs) get better at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think human-like reasoning is just around the corner. In reality, they still lag us by a wide margin when it comes to complex tasks. For example, try playing Sudoku with one. Enter the numbers 1 through 9…
Gen AI in software engineering goes far beyond autocomplete. The new frontier is agent coding. It’s an AI system that can plan changes, execute changes across multiple steps, and iterate based on feedback. But despite the excitement around “AI agents that code,” most enterprise deployments have underperformed. The limiting factor is no longer the model….
Cryptocurrency stablecoin issuer Tether has announced that it has launched a bid to fully acquire Italian professional soccer club Juventus Football Club, which has already reportedly been shot down. Tether announced on Friday that it had submitted a binding all-cash offer to Exor, the Agnelli family’s holding company, for a 65.4% controlling stake in Juventus,…
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful yet. No model family yet, Olmo 3. However, the company continued to iterate on the model and extend its reinforcement learning (RL) execution to create Olmo 3.1. The new Olmo 3.1 model focuses on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2…
Suppose that an environmental scientist is studying whether exposure to air pollution is associated with lower birth weight in a particular county. Since machine learning techniques are particularly good at learning complex relationships, there is the potential to train machine learning models to estimate the magnitude of this association. Standard machine learning techniques are good…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted a much-needed “no-action” letter to a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), allowing it to offer new securities market tokenization services. DTCC announced Thursday that its subsidiary, Depository Trust Company (DTC), has been granted permission to launch “a new service to tokenize real-world assets…
