Models
New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials
The artificial intelligence models that turn text into images are also useful for generating new materials. Over the last few years, generative materials models from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta have drawn on their training data to help researchers design tens of millions of new materials. But when it comes to designing materials with…
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that rivaled the performance of…
MBZUAI Researchers Release K2 Think: A 32B Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning and Outperforms 20x Larger Reasoning Models
A team of researchers from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models and G42 released K2 Think, is a 32B-parameter open reasoning system for advanced AI reasoning. It pairs long chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards, agentic planning, test-time scaling, and inference optimizations (speculative decoding + wafer-scale hardware). The result is frontier-level math performance…
How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new evolutionary technique from Japan-based AI lab Sakana AI enables developers to augment the capabilities of AI models without costly training and fine-tuning processes. The technique, called Model…
Can large language models figure out the real world?
Back in the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system’s planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn’t until decades later, when Isaac Newton formulated the universal laws of gravitation, that the underlying…
Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction
Environmental scientists are increasingly using enormous artificial intelligence models to make predictions about changes in weather and climate, but a new study by MIT researchers shows that bigger models are not always better. The team demonstrates that, in certain climate scenarios, much simpler, physics-based models can generate more accurate predictions than state-of-the-art deep-learning models. Their…
Large Language Models LLMs vs. Small Language Models SLMs for Financial Institutions: A 2025 Practical Enterprise AI Guide
No single solution universally wins between Large Language Models (LLMs, ≥30B parameters, often via APIs) and Small Language Models (SLMs, ~1–15B, typically open-weights or proprietary specialist models). For banks, insurers, and asset managers in 2025, your selection should be governed by regulatory risk, data sensitivity, latency and cost requirements, and the complexity of the use…
Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models
Within the past few years, models that can predict the structure or function of proteins have been widely used for a variety of biological applications, such as identifying drug targets and designing new therapeutic antibodies. These models, which are based on large language models (LLMs), can make very accurate predictions of a protein’s suitability for…
Meet DeepFleet: Amazon’s New AI Models Suite that can Predict Future Traffic Patterns for Fleets of Mobile Robots
Amazon has reached a remarkable milestone by deploying its one-millionth robot across global fulfillment and sortation centers, solidifying its position as the world’s largest operator of industrial mobile robotics. This achievement coincides with the launch of DeepFleet, a groundbreaking suite of foundation models designed to enhance coordination among vast fleets of mobile robots. Trained on…
Europe’s Top AI Models of 2025: Multilingual, Open, and Enterprise-Ready
Europe’s AI ecosystem in 2025 is a robust arena of open innovation, multilingual capabilities, and enterprise-grade reasoning. Below, we present an in-depth, fact-checked review of the region’s most advanced AI models, with technical specifications, licensing, and standout strengths. Each entry includes links to official model information for further exploration. 1. Mistral AI (France) Founded in…