From Where Things Are to What They’re For: Benchmarking Spatial–Functional Intelligence for Multimodal LLMs
True spatial intelligence for multimodal agents transcends low-level geometric perception, evolving from knowing where things…
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SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It…
Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed…
Toward a Better Evaluations Ecosystem
Model evaluations are broken. Numbers that are often cited alongside one another as evidence of…
Model Spec Midtraining: Improving How Alignment Training Generalizes
tl;dr We introduce model spec midtraining (MSM): after pre-training but before alignment fine-tuning, we train…
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Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI
Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.
Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models
With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party…
What if LLMs are mostly crystallized intelligence?
SummaryLLMs are better at developing crystallized intelligence than fluid intelligence. That is: LLM training is good…
Decision theory doesn’t prove that useful strong AIs will doom us all
Bottom-line up frontTraining for optimal behavior doesn't inevitably lead to act-utilitarian world optimizers ("WorldSUM agents").…