How 'Neolabs' are betting against the OpenAI model and what it means for founders

AI is moving faster and becoming more diverse than ever. The next competitive advantage may come from a new architecture.
The Robot Report

Ai2 says its Molmo 2 multimodal AI model can do more with less data

Molmo 2 is an 8B-parameter model that surpasses the 72B-parameter Molmo in accuracy, temporal understanding, and pixel-level ...
Billings Gazette

Photo: After school math meetup encourages new ways of learning

Newman Elementary students and their families participate in ST Math night at the school on Tuesday. ST math uses "spatial-temporal" reasoning paired with visuals and puzzles to encourage participants ...
Forbes

What Is Spatial Thinking? And Why Does It Matter For Students In Schools?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about psychology and education research and policy. Joni Lakin: Sometimes it's okay to recognize talent based on intuition ...
TMCnet

Ai2 Releases Molmo 2: State-of-the-Art Open Multimodal Family for Video and Multi-Image Understanding

Molmo 2 comes in three main variants: Molmo 2 (4B), Molmo2 (8B), and Molmo 2-O (7B), which uses Ai2's fully open Olmo backbone for the complete end-to-end model flow. Versions tuned specifically for ...

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...
Scientific American

When Students Acquire Spatial Skills, Their Verbal Abilities Get a Boost

Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can skew results. In principle, neuroscience ...