Ignition at Last: Fusion’s Net-Energy Milestone
In a development that has drawn wide attention in physics research, in December 2022 the National Ignition Facility achieved fusion...
Year: 2026
Picturing the Unseeable: The First Black Hole Image
In a development that has drawn wide attention in physics research, the Event Horizon Telescope unveiled the first image of...
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...
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...
