Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This “smart coach” helps LLMs switch between text and code
Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest math problems. Textual reasoning is usually a less-than-ideal way to deliberate over computational or algorithmic tasks. While some LLMs…
Getting Started with Mirascope: Removing Semantic Duplicates using an LLM
Mirascope is a powerful and user-friendly library that provides a unified interface for working with a wide range of Large Language Model (LLM) providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google (Gemini and Vertex AI), Groq, Cohere, LiteLLM, Azure AI, and Amazon Bedrock. It simplifies everything from text generation and structured data extraction to building complex AI-powered…
MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work
Starting in July, MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative in the Department of Economics will usher in a significant new era of research, policy, and education of the next generation of scholars, made possible by a gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation. In recognition of the gift and the expansion…
Amazon Releases Kiro: An AI IDE That Empowers Developers with Agentic Automation
Amazon has unveiled Kiro, a groundbreaking agentic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to change the way developers build, ship, and maintain software. Positioned well beyond the capabilities of today’s AI coding assistants, Kiro brings a mature, structured approach to software delivery—offering innovations in specification-driven development, intelligent automation, and adaptive user interfaces. Here’s an in-depth look…
MIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing
MIT today launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to reinfuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, bolster crucial U.S. economic sectors, and ignite job creation. The initiative will encompass advanced research, innovative education programs, and partnership with companies across many sectors, in a bid to help transform manufacturing and elevate its…
NVIDIA AI Released DiffusionRenderer: An AI Model for Editable, Photorealistic 3D Scenes from a Single Video
AI-powered video generation is improving at a breathtaking pace. In a short time, we’ve gone from blurry, incoherent clips to generated videos with stunning realism. Yet, for all this progress, a critical capability has been missing: control and Edits While generating a beautiful video is one thing, the ability to professionally and realistically edit it—to…
Helping machines understand visual content with AI
Data should drive every decision a modern business makes. But most businesses have a massive blind spot: They don’t know what’s happening in their visual data. Coactive is working to change that. The company, founded by Cody Coleman ’13, MEng ’15 and William Gaviria Rojas ’13, has created an artificial intelligence-powered platform that can make sense…
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A Trillion-Parameter MoE Model Focused on Long Context, Code, Reasoning, and Agentic Behavior
Kimi K2, launched by Moonshot AI in July 2025, is a purpose-built, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model—1 trillion total parameters, with 32 billion active parameters per token. It’s trained using the custom MuonClip optimizer on 15.5 trillion tokens, achieving stable training at this unprecedented scale without the typical instabilities seen in ultra-large models. Unlike traditional chatbots, K2 is architected…
AI shapes autonomous underwater “gliders”
Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes. Their bodies are optimized for efficient, hydrodynamic aquatic navigation so they can exert minimal energy when traveling long distances. Autonomous vehicles can drift through the ocean in a similar way, collecting data about vast underwater environments….
Mistral AI Releases Devstral 2507 for Code-Centric Language Modeling
Mistral AI, in collaboration with All Hands AI, has released updated versions of its developer-focused large language models under the Devstral 2507 label. The release includes two models—Devstral Small 1.1 and Devstral Medium 2507—designed to support agent-based code reasoning, program synthesis, and structured task execution across large software repositories. These models are optimized for performance…