AI Research - May 2025
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AI Research - April 2025
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Last month we ended up writing about 3 of the top 5 papers published in AI / ML, here they are for convenience:
Groundbreaking AI Learns Without Human Data, Reaches Superhuman Reasoning
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The Dawn of Computational Evolution
A new research paper "Perception, Reason, Think, and Plan: A Survey on Large Multimodal Reasoning Models" shows us the exciting evolution of Artificial Intelligence systems that can process and reason with various types of information like text, images, audio, and video.
Emerging Properties in Unified Multimodal Pretraining
The quest for a truly versatile artificial intelligence, one that can not only understand but also create across a seamless blend of text, images, and video has been a long-standing ambition in the AI community.
Shifting AI Efficiency From Model-Centric to Data-Centric Compression
The Dawn of a New AI Era: Why Smarter Data Beats Bigger Models
The world of Artificial Intelligence has long been dominated by a simple mantra: bigger is better. For years, groundbreaking advances from large language model to image generators were achieved by relentlessly increasing their size—scaling up the number of digital "neurons" or parameters, from millions to hundreds of billions.