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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do

Inspired by the mechanics of the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education.

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Artificial Intelligence

A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately

Using this model, researchers may be able to identify antibody drugs that can target a variety of infectious diseases.

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Artificial IntelligenceEnergyMachine Learning

Unlocking the hidden power of boiling — for energy, space, and beyond

Associate Professor Matteo Bucci’s research sheds new light on an ancient process, to improve the efficiency of heat transfer in many industrial systems.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.

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Artificial IntelligenceAutonomous Vehicles

Corvus Robotics, founded by Mohammed Kabir ’21, is using drones that can navigate in GPS-denied environments to expedite inventory management.

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Artificial IntelligenceIndustry

MIT welcomes Frida Polli as its next visiting innovation scholar

The neuroscientist turned entrepreneur will be hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and focus on advancing the intersection of behavioral science and AI across MIT.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware.

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Artificial Intelligence

When MIT’s interdisciplinary NEET program is a perfect fit

Junior Katie Spivakovsky describes her path through New Engineering Education Transformation to biomedical research and beyond.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.

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