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Category: Breakthrough
Ai2 Launches AutoDiscovery to Analyze Datasets and Break Science’s Ideation Bottleneck
Scientific progress has long followed a familiar arc: form a hypothesis, design an experiment, test, and repeat. But when dealing with sprawling datasets, the bottleneck isn’t in collecting information. It’s deciding where to look. Ai2 is betting that artificial intelligence can automate that decision. The nonprofit AI lab has introduced AutoDiscovery, an open-source experimental tool […]
Ai2’s OlmoEarth Opens the Door to Accessible, Open-Source Earth AI
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is announcing the release of OlmoEarth, a new platform featuring an open multimodal foundation model pre-trained on approximately 10 terabytes of global satellite and sensor data. Developers can utilize this AI to gain a better understanding of what’s happening to our planet, as it democratizes access to insights that […]
Ai2’s Asta DataVoyager Makes Complex Data Analysis Accessible to All Scientists
Ai2 is expanding its Asta toolkit with a new addition aimed at helping scientists navigate complex data. The release of Asta DataVoyager makes analyzing any amount of structured data more accessible, thanks to this open-source data analysis offering. All researchers need to do is upload a dataset and ask their questions using natural language. Then, […]
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Lands $863 Million to Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an American fusion power company spun out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has secured $863 million in Series B2 funding. The new round comes four years after the energy firm raised $1.8 billion, bringing its total to around $3 billion—an amount that’s “one-third of the total capital” invested in […]
Ai2’s Asta Launches as an Open Framework to Bring Rigor to Scientific AI
Fresh off unveiling MolmoAct and securing a U.S. government contract to build a new, fully open suite of advanced models, Ai2 is testing the boundaries of scientific discovery with the introduction of Asta, its new AI toolkit for scientific research. True to The Allen Institute for AI’s mission, this collection is built to give researchers […]
Google Cloud and Ai2 Invest $20M to Accelerate AI-Driven Cancer Research
Google Cloud and Ai2 have partnered with the Cancer AI Alliance, a coalition of leading research institutions and tech companies focused on using AI to combat cancer. The two companies announced they are investing $20 million to support the effort and provide access to needed technology to accelerate scientific discovery. “The Cancer AI Alliance represents […]
How Ceres Imaging Uses AI to Help Farmers Grow Better Crops
Editor’s Note: This post about Ceres Imaging was originally published on the now-defunct All Turtles blog in June 2018. You can read other articles I’ve written for that site here. In the United States, much of the food is produced by 75 percent of the country’s farms, but this group grosses only $50,000 a year. The big […]