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Apple MLApple ML

GIE-Bench: Towards Grounded Evaluation for Text-Guided Image Editing

GIE-Bench introduces a novel benchmark for evaluating text-guided image editing models focusing on functional correctness and image content preservation with a large-scale annotated dataset.

12/16/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining

Investigates data processing, synthetic data augmentation, and sequence interleaving strategies to enhance speech-language model pretraining, resulting in a compact yet highly effective SpeechLM named SpeLangy.

12/16/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining

Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining (SBP) enhances language model performance by synthesizing new training data through learning inter-document relations, achieving significant improvements over traditional pretraining methods.

12/16/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Unified Open-World Segmentation with Multi-Modal Prompts

COSINE introduces a unified open-world segmentation model leveraging multi-modal prompts to enhance flexibility and accuracy in image understanding across diverse applications.

12/16/2025
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior

Gemma Scope 2 offers an advanced open-source suite of interpretability tools enabling the AI safety community to analyze and debug complex behaviors in large language models from 270M to 27B parameters.

12/16/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Announcing the winners of the inaugural Databricks Free Edition Hackathon

Celebrating the innovative winners of the first Databricks Free Edition Hackathon, showcasing diverse AI and data engineering projects that leverage Free Edition capabilities for practical and impactful solutions.

12/16/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Lakebase Holiday Update

Lakebase introduces dynamic compute autoscaling, instant branching, point-in-time recovery, increased storage capacity, and a refreshed UI to enhance serverless Postgres-powered application data management on Databricks.

12/16/2025
StripeStripe

PayTo available in Australia

PayTo enables real-time, cost-effective, and easily integrable payment solutions in Australia, enhancing sales conversions and expanding global payment options through Stripe.

12/15/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

MIT engineers developed a deep-learning dual-graph model that predicts, with 90% accuracy, the minute-by-minute cell folding, division, and rearrangement during early fruit fly development, offering potential applications in understanding tissue formation and early disease detection.

12/15/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Working to eliminate barriers to adopting nuclear energy

Innovative research on extracting decay heat from high-level nuclear waste offers a sustainable solution to enhance carbon-free energy production while addressing nuclear waste disposal challenges.

12/15/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

3 Questions: Using computation to study the world’s best single-celled chemists

Exploring how computational genomic language models can decode microbial diversity to unlock novel biological functions and applications in extreme environments.

12/15/2025
MetaMeta

How AI Is Transforming the Adoption of Secure-by-Default Mobile Frameworks

Meta leverages AI-driven automation and carefully designed secure-by-default mobile frameworks to enhance security while maintaining developer efficiency across its extensive app ecosystem.

12/15/2025