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05Lab & research

The yield imperative: Turning AI infrastructure into useful intelligence

As we enter the next era, what will be the defining measure of our progress? Every industry has a word that shapes how it thinks. For pilots, it’s safety. For insurers, it’s risk. For the semiconductor industry, it’s yield. Yield does not ask how elegant the solution is, how many years it took or what...

Microsoft

14Lab & research

BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?

BenchMIRT is a new method for auditing LLM benchmarks question by question, revealing which capabilities they actually measure and helping researchers build smaller, more focused, and easier-to-interpret evaluations.

Ai2

15Lab & research

The hard parts of AI-assisted science

At an Ai2 event marking our expanded collaboration with Providence Swedish, researchers explored the hardest problems in AI-assisted science: keeping systems steerable, grounded in human judgment and sound methods, and responsive to new evidence and experiments.

Ai2