Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

This efficiency makes it viable for enterprises to move beyond generic off-the-shelf solutions and develop specialized models that are deeply aligned with their specific data domains ...

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far less training data and compute than much larger systems.
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AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...