How physically realistic are our AI-generated videos? Physion Labs, Stanford University, MIT, Harvard University, and Character AI introduce Physion-Eval. This new benchmark uses expert human reasoning to meticulously diagnose and explain physical realism failures in
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OCR Models Struggle with Non-Latin Unicode Scripts Benchmark
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GlotOCR Bench OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts paper: https://
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Document of Record Layer Transforms Dark Data for AI Trust
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The solution isn't bigger models or more GPUs. It's creating that document of record layer that transforms dark data into something AI can actually trust.
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Pattern of AI hype, minor wins, then breakthroughs
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This is becoming a pattern in AI that makes talking about capabilities challenging. First, there are overstated claims (like the flubbed Erdos problems last year), then minor wins (AI helps with discovery) then breakthroughs. The first stage feels like (& often is) hype, but…
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MSL Publishes Preparedness Reports for Advanced AI Models
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As we develop more capable models at the frontier, MSL is committed to safety and preparedness for AI. To demonstrate this commitment, we will be publishing preparedness reports for our models, in line with our new Advanced AI Scaling Framework. See our Muse Spark report below:
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Intelligence as Out-of-Distribution Problem Solving
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Intelligence is problem solving out of distribution
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: 120B Open Model for Agentic Reasoning
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Banger paper from NVIDIA. Agentic reasoning needs models that are not just capable, but efficient at long-context inference. The agent model layer is moving toward open, long-context, high-throughput architectures. This paper introduces Nemotron 3 Super, an open 120B parameter
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Nemotron 3 Super: Open MoE Hybrid Model for Agentic AI
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Nemotron 3 Super Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning paper: https://
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Ricardo Receives ACM Award Recognition
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In case it's not clear, you can click on the picture in the first image to learn more about Ricardo and the award: Twitter swallowed my actual link text to https://
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates Wins ACM Luiz Barroso Award
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Delighted to see that Ricardo Baeza-Yates (
@PolarBearby
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