Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch
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Last days to participate in the IAPA AI Product Lab call, supported by Google
“The Inter American Press Association (IAPA), in partnership with Google News Initiative (GNI), announced the opening of applications for the AI Product Lab, an innovative program designed to drive digital transformation and the strategic use of artificial intelligence in Latin American and Caribbean media outlets. Developed by the consulting firm Maktube Group, the Lab aims […] The post Last days to participate in the IAPA AI Product Lab call, supported by Google appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
Last days to participate in the IAPA AI Product Lab call, supported by Google
“The Inter American Press Association (IAPA), in partnership with Google News Initiative (GNI), announced the opening of applications for the AI Product Lab, an innovative program designed to drive digital transformation and the strategic use of artificial intelligence in Latin American and Caribbean media outlets. Developed by the consulting firm Maktube Group, the Lab aims […] The post Last days to participate in the IAPA AI Product Lab call, supported by Google appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
AISG Research Collaborative Project with US-NSF Researchers
Ensuring that AI systems are trustworthy and reliable is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence capabilities...
What exactly does word2vec learn?
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers lacked a quantitative and predictive theory describing its learning process. In our new paper , we finally provide such a theory. We prove that there are realistic, practical regimes in which the learning problem reduces to unweighted least-squares matrix factorization . We solve the gradient flow dynamics in closed form; the final learned representations are simply given by PCA. Learning dynamics of word2vec . When trained from small initialization, word2vec learns in discrete, sequential steps. Left: rank-incrementing learning steps in the weight matrix, each decreasing the loss. Right: three time slices of the latent embedding space showing how embedding vectors expand into subspaces of increasing dimension at each learning step, continuing until model capacity is saturated. Before elaborating on this result, let’s motivate the problem. word2vec is a well-known algorithm for learning dense vector representations of words. These embedding vectors are trained using a contrastive algorithm; at the end of training, the semantic relation between any two words is captured by the angle between the corresponding embeddings. In fact, the learned embeddings empirically exhibit striking linear structure in…
The African AI Ecosystem Top 20 Countries
Research by the South African AI Association and the AI Media Group has shown that 94% of the African AI Ecosystem is contained in just 20 countries
Mass Intelligence
From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI
Folha de S.Paulo files lawsuit against OpenAI for unfair competition and copyright infringement
“Folha de S.Paulo filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Wednesday [Aug. 20], demanding that the owner of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform stop collecting and using the newspaper’s content without authorization or payment. The suit accuses OpenAI of unfair competition and copyright infringement, stating that ‘the defendant develops and improves its AI tool [...] based […] The post Folha de S.Paulo files lawsuit against OpenAI for unfair competition and copyright infringement appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
Folha de S.Paulo files lawsuit against OpenAI for unfair competition and copyright infringement
“Folha de S.Paulo filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Wednesday [Aug. 20], demanding that the owner of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform stop collecting and using the newspaper’s content without authorization or payment. The suit accuses OpenAI of unfair competition and copyright infringement, stating that ‘the defendant develops and improves its AI tool [...] based […] The post Folha de S.Paulo files lawsuit against OpenAI for unfair competition and copyright infringement appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
Jozi Welcomes 8th Edition of Africa’s Largest AI Event
Africa’s largest AI event, AI Expo Africa, will be running its highly acclaimed conference & trade show at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa 29-31 October 2025.
Beyond detection: A multi-agent framework for root cause analysis of financial discrepancies in distributed environments
The increasing complexity and fragmentation of financial systems in large organizations have created significant challenges for financial teams, particularly in performing real-time, end-to-end validation, as existing validation methods relying on static rules or batch processing are often inadequate for today's dynamic financial environments. This paper introduces a novel approach using Large Language Model (LLM)-based browser agents within a multi-agent framework to enhance financial validation processes. The framework leverages domain-specific agents that autonomously navigate web-based financial platforms to validate data, interpret discrepancies, and perform root cause analysis, ensuring higher accuracy, transparency, and auditability compared to traditional systems. A synthetic dataset and controlled simulation environment were used to evaluate the framework's performance across 20 distinct financial scenarios, revealing significant improvements in validation accuracy (from 40% with a Vanilla agent to 65% with the proposed approach). The results indicate that the proposed multi-agent approach, by isolating validation tasks into specialized agents and orchestrating a coordinated investigation, provides a more reliable, scalable, and interpretable solution for high-stakes financial environments.
At the University of Tübingen, educational sciences and AI research are working together to improve learning with AI-based solutions
Hector Foundation Launches “Hector AI + Education Future Fund” with €6.2 Million
Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
In recent years, LLM Multi-Agent systems have garnered widespread attention for their collaborative approach to solving complex problems. However, it's a common scenario for these systems to fail at a task despite a flurry of activity. The post Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems first appeared on Synced .
Pretraining Data Filtering for Open-Weight AI Safety
Announcing Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
Vector researchers dive into deep learning at ICLR 2025
Vector researchers made significant contributions to this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), the world’s leading venue for representation learning and deep learning research, which took place April 24-28, […] The post Vector researchers dive into deep learning at ICLR 2025 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Whistleblowing and the EU AI Act
This page aims to provide an overview of the EU Whistleblowing Directive (2019) and how it relates to the EU AI Act, as well as provide useful resources for potential whistleblowers. This resource was put together by Santeri Koivula, an EU Fellow at the Future of Life Institute, and Karl Koch, founder of the AI […]
Deploy DeepSeek‑R1 with vLLM and Ray Serve on Kubernetes
Thank you to everyone who contributed to writing this blog including: Anyscale (Seiji Eicher, Ricardo Decal, Kai-Hsun Chen) and Google GKE (Yiwen Xiang, Andrew Sy Kim).
From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
And How They Stack Up Against Qwen3
AGI is not coming!
jack Morris's investigation into GPT-OSS training data https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164?t=3YRhVQDwQLk2gouTSACoqA&s=09
When AI Meets Human Matters: Evaluating Multimodal Models Through a Human-Centred Lens – Introducing HumaniBench
By Shaina Raza and Veronica Chatrath AI models are rapidly becoming bigger, faster, and more capable at understanding images and text together. However, while accuracy and speed are often celebrated, […] The post When AI Meets Human Matters: Evaluating Multimodal Models Through a Human-Centred Lens – Introducing HumaniBench appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
When Community Leads: Rwanda to Host the 2025 Annual Deep Learning Indaba
Pierrette Mahoro Mastel currently works at GIZ as a Digital Health Advisor, prior to that she was at CMU-Africa where she did her Masters in IT with a major in Machine Learning. Mastel is the IndabaX Rwanda lead and one of the 2025 General Chairs for the Indaba to be held in Kigali 17-22 August […] The post When Community Leads: Rwanda to Host the 2025 Annual Deep Learning Indaba appeared first on Deep Learning Indaba .
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge
Junior Professor Nicole Ludwig Joins Tübingen AI Center
We are delighted to welcome Nicole Ludwig at the Tübingen AI Center!
Attention Probes
Adding attention to linear probes
New Principal Investigators join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
Three outstanding Principal Investigators will be joining the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, co-affiliated with the MPI-IS and the Tübingen AI Center.
Overview of Guidelines for GPAI Models
On 18 July 2025, the European Commission published draft Guidelines clarifying key provisions of the EU AI Act applicable to General Purpose AI (GPAI) models. The Guidelines provide interpretive guidance on the definition and scope of GPAI models, related lifecycle obligations, systemic risk criteria, and notification duties for providers. Once translated into all EU languages, […]
Overview of the Code of Practice
The Code of Practice offers a clear framework to help developers of General Purpose AI (GPAI) models meet the requirements of the EU AI Act. While providers can choose to follow the Code, they are also free to demonstrate compliance through other appropriate methods. This post provides a concise overview of each Chapter, Commitment, and […]
Teaching Award 2025
Lena Schlipf Honored by Students
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
Press Release DLI 2025
Deep Learning Indaba 2025: Africa’s biggest AI Community Gathers 1000 participants in Kigali, Rwanda to Shape the Future KIGALI, RWANDA –July 14th, 2025– The Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), Africa’s premier machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) event, proudly announces its 7th edition, set to take place in Kigali, Rwanda, under the powerful theme “Urunana – […] The post Press Release DLI 2025 appeared first on Deep Learning Indaba .
Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance (Paper Analysis)
Paper: https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically presumed to process context uniformly—that is, the model should handle the 10,000th token just as reliably as the 100th. However, in practice, this assumption does not hold. We observe that model performance varies significantly as input length changes, even on simple tasks. In this report, we evaluate 18 LLMs, including the state-of-the-art GPT-4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, and Qwen3 models. Our results reveal that models do not use their context uniformly; instead, their performance grows increasingly unreliable as input length grows. Authors: Kelly Hong, Anton Troynikov, Jeff Huber Links: Homepage: https://ykilcher.com Merch: https://ykilcher.com/merch YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/yannickilcher Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykilcher Discord: https://ykilcher.com/discord LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ykilcher If you want to support me, the best thing to do is to share out the content :) If you want to support me financially (completely optional and voluntary, but a lot of people have asked for this): SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/yannickilcher Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yannickilcher Bitcoin (BTC): bc1q49lsw3q325tr58ygf8sudx2dqfguclvngvy2cq Ethereum (ETH): 0x7ad3513E3B8f66799f507Aa7874b1B0eBC7F85e2 Litecoin (LTC): LQW2TRyKYetVC8WjFkhpPhtpbDM4Vw7r9m Monero (XMR): 4ACL8AGrEo5hAir8A9CeVrW8pEauWvnp1WnSDZxW7tziCDLhZAGsgzhRQABDnFy8yuM9fWJDviJPHKRj…
Vector Institute 2024-25 annual report: Where AI research meets real-world impact
Vector’s latest annual report showcases research advancements and industry partnerships that strengthen Canada’s AI leadership Vector bridges AI research and application, translating cutting-edge science into solutions that benefit Canadians. Over […] The post Vector Institute 2024-25 annual report: Where AI research meets real-world impact appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Energy-Based Transformers are Scalable Learners and Thinkers (Paper Review)
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02092 Code: https://github.com/alexiglad/EBT Website: https://energy-based-transformers.github.io/ Abstract: Inference-time computation techniques, analogous to human System 2 Thinking, have recently become popular for improving model performances. However, most existing approaches suffer from several limitations: they are modality-specific (e.g., working only in text), problem-specific (e.g., verifiable domains like math and coding), or require additional supervision/training on top of unsupervised pretraining (e.g., verifiers or verifiable rewards). In this paper, we ask the question "Is it possible to generalize these System 2 Thinking approaches, and develop models that learn to think solely from unsupervised learning?" Interestingly, we find the answer is yes, by learning to explicitly verify the compatibility between inputs and candidate-predictions, and then re-framing prediction problems as optimization with respect to this verifier. Specifically, we train Energy-Based Transformers (EBTs) -- a new class of Energy-Based Models (EBMs) -- to assign an energy value to every input and candidate-prediction pair, enabling predictions through gradient descent-based energy minimization until convergence. Across both discrete (text) and continuous (visual) modalities, we find EBTs scale faster than the dominant Transformer++ approach during training, achieving an up to 35% higher scaling rate with respect to data, batch size, parameters, FLOPs…
The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design
Google DeepMind Falls Behind OpenAI in Latest Safety Review; All AI Companies Still Falling Short, Say Experts
The Future of Life Institute’s 2025 summer update to its AI Safety Index shows some companies making incremental progress, but dangerous gaps remain in key categories such as risk assessment and controlling the systems they plan to build.
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Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
Tübingen AI Summer Poster Event 2025
On July 11, the Tübingen AI Center hosted the 2025 edition of the Tübingen AI Summer Poster Event
Política de Privacidad de la Información y Datos Personales
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Under the Jasmine Tree
تحت الياسمينة This month’s newsletter was written by two community members. Amal Nammouchi, originally from Tunisia 🇹🇳, is a co-founder of AfriClimate AI, a Pan-African non-profit using AI to tackle climate challenges across Africa. She is a PhD candidate affiliated with SOLVE and Karlstad University, Sweden, and is a long time organiser for the Deep Learning […] The post Under the Jasmine Tree appeared first on Deep Learning Indaba .
Against "Brain Damage"
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
Comparing AUROCs of binary classifiers across cross-validation folds: alternatives to DeLong
I have two binary classifiers and would like to check whether there is a statistically significant difference between the area under the ROC curve (AUROC). I have reason to opt for AUROC as my evaluation metric of choice. For each classifier, I have 15 runs as I do 5-fold cross-validation and use 3 random seeds for initialisation. For evaluation, I have used unseen/independent test data. This means that for both classifiers I have 15 paired AUROC values. According to this article on Nature , DeLong test is (often) used for significance testing with AUROCs. However, as this depends on the variance and covariance I suspect that I cannot use DeLong test with these 15 AUROC values. In order to use DeLong test, I should concatenate all predictions on the test data across the 15 unique versions of each classifier. Would this be correct? Would it be a good idea to use paired t-test on these 15 AUROC pairs (assuming the differences between these pairs values are normally distributed)? Are there any arguments favouring either DeLong test or paired t-test?
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)
A topic-organized collection of 200+ LLM research papers from 2025
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
× Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA) . Given past video frames and an action specifying a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. Our results show that, given the first frame and a sequence of actions, our model can generate videos of atomic actions (a), simulate counterfactuals (b), and support long video generation (c). Recent years have brought significant advances in world models that learn to simulate future outcomes for planning and control. From intuitive physics to multi-step video prediction, these models have grown increasingly powerful and expressive. But few are designed for truly embodied agents. In order to create a World Model for Embodied Agents, we need a real embodied agent that acts in the real world. A real embodied agent has a physically grounded complex action space as opposed to abstract control signals. They also must act in diverse real-life scenarios and feature an egocentric view as opposed to aesthetic scenes and stationary cameras. 💡 Tip: Click on any image to view it in full resolution. Why It’s Hard Action and vision are heavily context-dependent. The same view can lead to different movements and vice versa. This is because humans act in complex, embodied, goal-directed environments. Human control is high-dimensional and structured. Full-body motion spans 48+ degrees of freedom with hierarchical, time-dependent dynamics. Egocentric view reveals intention but hides the body. First-person vision reflects…
ELLlOT project launches to advance general-purpose AI under Horizon Europe
Tübingen AI Center is proud to be a partner in ELLlOT, a Horizon Europe-funded project aiming to develop next-generation Multimodal Generalist Foundation Models.
Cassava Technologies partners with the South African Artificial Intelligence Association to boost local access to AI compute services
Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 June 2025 – Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader of African heritage, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South African AI Association (SAAIA), an industry body focused on growing responsible AI adoption, to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaas) across the […]
Google’s AI search features slash traffic to news sites, deepening sustainability crisis
"Google’s rollout of tools like AI Overviews and AI Mode—chatbots that answer users’ search queries—has begun shifting online behavior from browsing links to reading AI-generated responses, drastically reducing traffic to news sites. The resulting drop in organic traffic is forcing many media organizations to rethink their sustainability models in an ecosystem increasingly dominated by tech […] The post Google’s AI search features slash traffic to news sites, deepening sustainability crisis appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
Google’s AI search features slash traffic to news sites, deepening sustainability crisis
"Google’s rollout of tools like AI Overviews and AI Mode—chatbots that answer users’ search queries—has begun shifting online behavior from browsing links to reading AI-generated responses, drastically reducing traffic to news sites. The resulting drop in organic traffic is forcing many media organizations to rethink their sustainability models in an ecosystem increasingly dominated by tech […] The post Google’s AI search features slash traffic to news sites, deepening sustainability crisis appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
Hijacking Amazon EventBridge for launching Cross-Account attacks
Securing the invisible paths: How cross-account event flows can become security blind spots
ByteDance Introduces Astra: A Dual-Model Architecture for Autonomous Robot Navigation
ByteDance introduces Astra, an innovative dual-model architecture revolutionizing robot navigation in complex indoor environments. The post ByteDance Introduces Astra: A Dual-Model Architecture for Autonomous Robot Navigation first appeared on Synced .