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Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery

Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of the proteins and enzymes that have evolved on Earth over the past 4 billion years, human knowledge barely scratches the surface. That’s why a company called Basecamp Research is bringing together graph and AI technologies to expand the ... Full article

Cracking Biology’s Code With Evo 2, an AI Trained on 100K Species

A new foundation model designed to unlock deeper insights into biological code has been released today. Developed through a collaboration led by Arc Institute and Nvidia, Evo 2 is trained on the DNA of more than 100,000 species, covering a vast range of life forms across different domains of biology. Developers of Evo 2 say ... Full article

Where Is AI Making the Greatest Impact in the Workforce?

Where is AI making the greatest impact in today’s workforce? So far, finding a solid answer to this question has been tough. To shed some light, Anthropic, the startup behind the popular AI chatbot Claude, recently released findings from its new research: The Anthropic Economic Index. Driven by data from over four million Claude conversations, ... Full article

DataRobot Expands AI Capabilities with Agnostiq Acquisition

In a move to accelerate the development of agentic AI applications and make it easier to manage compute resources, DataRobot today announced the acquisition of Agnostiq, a Toronto-based software startup that specializes in distributed computing solutions. DataRobot is known for enterprise AI and AutoML platforms, which are designed to automate and simplify the development, deployment, ... Full article

The End of Prompt Engineering? AI Learns to Speak Our Language

For years, the rise of large language models (LLMs) has required users to develop a new skill: prompt engineering. To get useful responses, people have had to carefully craft their queries, learning the nuances of how AI interprets language. But that dynamic may be shifting. With advances in natural language processing (NLP) and multi-modal AI, ... Full article

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still under rapid development. One of the challenges in HPC and technical computing is finding where GenAI “fits in” and, more importantly, ... Full article

What Are Reasoning Models and Why You Should Care

The meteoric rise of DeepSeek R-1 has put the spotlight on an emerging type of AI model called a reasoning model. As generative AI applications move beyond conversational interfaces, reasoning models are likely to grow in capability and use, which is why they should be on your AI radar. A reasoning model is a type ... Full article

Quantinuum Announces Generative Quantum AI Framework Gen QAI

Quantinuum just announced a new generative quantum AI framework, Gen QAI. The company says its new framework leverages quantum-generated data to enable commercial applications in areas like drug development, predictive modeling in financial markets, and logistics and supply chain optimization. The company’s H2 quantum computer is driving this new framework, as it claims the computer ... Full article

DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed

Earlier this week, news of DeepSeek GPT swept through the media. The market reacted, and many hardware companies (e.g., Nvidia, ASML, Broadcom, Marvell) saw a drop in their market value. Presumably, the demand for truckloads of GPUs will be reduced because DeepSeek has delivered a foundation model that rivals the “big kids” at 1/50 the cost. This ... Full article

Ai2 Launches Tülu3-405B Model, Scales Reinforcement Learning for Open Source AI

This week, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched Tülu3-405B, a massive 405-billion parameter open source AI model claimed to outperform DeepSeek-V3 and match GPT-4o in key benchmarks, particularly mathematical reasoning and safety. This release showcases Ai2’s novel training method, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Tulu3-405B builds on Ai2’s Tulu3 post-training recipe, first introduced ... Full article

AI Needs Its Linux: Oumi Comes Out of Stealth with an Open Source Vision

A new company called Oumi has just been launched, emerging from stealth today with $10 million in seed funding. The company’s founders describe Oumi as the world’s first unconditionally open source AI platform, positioning it as a collaborative and transparent alternative to today’s proprietary AI ecosystems, similar to how Linux revolutionized operating systems. AIwire spoke with Oumi ... Full article

DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World

The AI world has been taken by storm. China's new open-source reasoning model, the DeepSeek R1, has sparked concerns that advances in AI by Chinese firms could threaten the revenue prospects of tech giants in the West and the AI supremacy long held by the U.S. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup ... Full article

OpenAI Launches Operator to Help Users Automate Browser Tasks

OpenAI has released a research preview for a new AI agent that can take control of your computer’s browser and perform actions on your behalf. The tool can interact with web pages by typing, clicking, and scrolling. Operator is one of OpenAI’s first AI agents. The company claims it outperforms rival AI agents such as ... Full article

How SandboxAQ Is Leading a Quiet Revolution in Science and Medicine

In the current AI landscape, creative and talkative large language models may be the star of the moment, but a quieter revolution is underway. Quantitative AI, grounded in rigorous scientific modeling and high performance computing, is charting a new frontier. While LLMs are great for human language tasks, quantitative AI is tuned into complex tasks in ... Full article

AI Risks in Business: Why Strong Contracts Are a Must

Companies integrating AI into their operations face some serious challenges that can’t be ignored if they want to avoid unnecessary risks. AI introduces complexities that traditional IT agreements weren’t built to handle, and failing to account for these issues can lead to major consequences. One of the biggest concerns is how AI uses data. Many ... Full article

Cerebras and Mayo Clinic Unveil Advanced Genomic AI Model

The intersection of AI and healthcare reached an exciting new milestone this week, as a new and groundbreaking genomic foundation model was unveiled at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. Cerebras and Mayo Clinic have collaborated to develop a world-class genomic foundation model aimed at harnessing the power of advanced AI and HPC ... Full article

AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Scientific Research

Scientific researchers are responsible for conducting experiments and making discoveries that improve our lives or, sometimes, even save them. However, the process of scientific research — from forming and testing a hypothesis to making groundbreaking discoveries available for public or commercial use — is complex, costly, and time-consuming. Without the right tools at their disposal, ... Full article

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not to be confused with Nvidia's Deep Learning GPU Training System: DIGITS). The platform offers a series ... Full article

AI’s Impact on Jobs, Trust, and Innovation: Insights from Accenture’s Technology Vision 2025

AI is the new digital, Accenture says in its latest Technology Vision 2025 report. This 25th edition of the company’s research, titled “AI: A Declaration of Autonomy,” frames AI as not only a pivotal technology but also a catalyst for entirely reshaping workflows and business processes. AI will permeate every part of the enterprise, with its transformative ... Full article

Developing a Trust Layer for AI Systems

Despite the hype around generative AI, studies show just a fraction of GenAI projects have made it into production. A big reason for this shortfall is the concern organizations have about the tendency for large language models (LLMs) to hallucinate and give inconsistent answers. One way organizations are responding to these concerns is by implementing ... Full article

Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery

Cracking Biology’s Code With Evo 2, an AI Trained on 100K Species

Where Is AI Making the Greatest Impact in the Workforce?

The End of Prompt Engineering? AI Learns to Speak Our Language

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