Why it matters: AI research is progressing faster than we're able to judge its many implications, even though we're still far from creating a so-called artificial general intelligence. Every time we ...

How a Bay Area tech entrepreneur, the Allen Institute, the Bezos family and others are targeting neurodegenerative diseases ...

The Allen Institute is launching a $400 million initiative, the Brain Health Accelerator, to develop gene therapies for neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and ...

Building on a foundation of image understanding artificial intelligence models, the Allen Institute for AI today introduced Molmo 2, a multimodal model family adapted to computer video and multi-image ...

It has been a wild few weeks and an eventful few months in AI: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Stargate, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce, Google, Elon Musk, and much more. With the DeepSeek advances in ...

For centuries, scientists who have dedicated their lives to studying the human brain have attempted to unlock its mysteries. The role the brain plays in human personality — as well as the myriad of ...

Seattle, WASH.—December 19, 2024—Today, the Allen Institute announced eight promising scientists who will make up the 2024 Next Generation Leaders (NGL) cohort. The NGL program began ten years ago to ...

The Allen Institute for AI, a nonprofit organization created by the late Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, said today it’s bringing more transparency into the generative artificial intelligence ...

Ali Farhadi is no tech rebel. The 42-year-old computer scientist is a highly respected researcher, a professor at the University of Washington and the founder of a startup that was acquired by Apple, ...

The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has written about ...