A Cosmic Collision Seen in Waves and Light
In a development that has drawn wide attention in physics research, in 2017 LIGO and Virgo caught two neutron stars...
Month: July 2026
First Light: Gravitational Waves Confirm Einstein
In a development that has drawn wide attention in physics research, lIGO announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves...
Chinchilla and the Rethinking of Scaling Laws
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, deepMind showed in 2022 that many large models were...
Learning From Human Feedback: The InstructGPT Shift
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, openAI used reinforcement learning from human feedback to align...
BERT and the Bidirectional Turn in Language Understanding
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, google's BERT read text in both directions at once,...
AlphaZero: Mastering Chess and Go From Scratch
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, alphaZero learned chess, shogi, and Go through self-play alone...
CLIP: Teaching Machines to Link Images and Words
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, openAI's CLIP learned from 400 million image-text pairs in...
Denoising the Future: The Rise of Diffusion Models
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, denoising diffusion models learn to reverse a gradual noising...
GPT-3 and the Arrival of Few-Shot Language Models
In a development that has drawn wide attention in ai research, openAI's GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020....
AlphaFold and the 50-Year Protein-Folding Problem
In a development that has drawn wide attention in biology research, deepMind's AlphaFold2 predicted 3D protein structures at near-experimental accuracy...
