When People Realize How Good The Latest Chinese Open Source Models Are (And Free), The GenAI Bubble Could Finally Pop
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The #AllenInstitute for AI (#Ai2) released #Olmo3, a collection of #openlanguage models designed to compete with industry leaders. Olmo 3 outperforms fully open models like #Stanford’s #Marin and commercial open-weight models like #Meta’s #Llama3.1, offering improved performance, efficiency, and transparency. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ai2-releases-olmo-3-open-models-rivaling-meta-deepseek-and-others-on-performance-and-efficiency/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
Scientists simulate the brain on a supercomputer
Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream.
They say their mouse-cortex simulation, run on one of the world’s fastest supercompute
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/11/17/scientists-simulate-the-brain-on-a-supercomputer/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Health #Neuroscience #Science #Simulations #Supercomputers
Scientists enlist AI to map regions of the brain
Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain to date, with 1,300 regions and subregions marked on the map.
Some of those subregions have never been charted before — and the researchers sa
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/07/scientists-enlist-ai-to-map-regions-of-the-brain/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Health #Neuroscience #Science
Scientists study the brain cells that show us illusions
Our brains are wired to fill in perceptual gaps in what we see, whether it’s a lion hiding in the trees or the shapes hidden in an optical illusion — but how does that wiring work? Neuroscientists are zeroing in on how special kinds of brain cells help us see things that aren’t ac
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/09/15/scientists-study-the-brain-cells-that-show-us-illusions/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Biology #Brain #Neuroscience #Science
Scientists are learning how special #brain cells play a role in detecting #illusions - and such studies could eventually reveal how #hallucinations arise, or point the way to better computer vision systems. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/laser-light-brain-cells-illusions/ HT @AllenInstitute #Science #Neuroscience #Berkeley #AllenInstitute
A New Kind of #AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
A novel approach from the #AllenInstitute for AI enables data to be removed from an #ArtificialIntelligence model even after it has already been used for #training.
> Interesting idea but I need it proven before I believe it
#privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/flexolmo-ai-model-lets-data-owners-take-control/
Scientists create new toolkit to fight brain diseases
Scientists say they’ve put together a new kind of molecular toolkit that could eventually be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly including epilepsy, sleep disorders and Huntington’s disease.
The kit currently contains more than 1,000 tools of a type known a
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/21/scientists-create-new-toolkit-to-fight-brain-diseases/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #Genetics #Health #Neuroscience #Science
New clues in the search for the roots of consciousness
Seven years after they started, neuroscientists have published the results of a landmark study that was designed to determine which theory of human consciousness came closest to the mark — and those results are decidedly mixed.
The bad news i
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/04/30/new-clues-in-the-search-for-the-roots-of-consciousness/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #ChristofKoch #Consciousness #Health #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science
MICrONS consortium investigates brain cell structure and connections
Research @MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) collaboration with many Institutes including our Uni, combining effort, expertise and data resources with cutting edge AI to drive neuroscience forward: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7780
Research #Nature: 10.1038/s41586-025-08829-y #NatureCommunications: 10.1038/s41467-025-58763-w
#AllenInstitute #NaturePortfolio: www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html
They said it couldn't be done ... but neuroscientists have successfully mapped all the cells in a cubic millimeter of #brain tissue, and have traced how the neurons fire. Find out more about the $100 million #MICrONS project and the role that Seattle's #AllenInstitute is playing. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/brain-microns-wiring-diagram-connections/ #Science #Neuroscience
Andy Hickl @Hickl is presenting "From Annotation to Insight: How NLP Transformed Biocuration" at #biocuration2025 to kick off the natural language processing session
What's next? Andy says: anyone who claims to know what's next is either lying to you, or trying to sell you on their startup
AI experts look ahead to artificial general intelligence
There’s no question that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming more intelligent, thanks to software platforms including ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Grok. But does that mean AI agents will one day outdo the generalized smarts that distinguish
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/08/17/ai-experts-look-ahead-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
#GeekWire #AGI #AllenInstitute #ArtificialIntelligence #Consciousness #HansonRobotics #Technology
Holy hell, I post one new summer internship position for a web accessibility intern on #LinkedIn and it gets viewed 16k times.
I don't even use LinkedIn, and that's the most engagement I've gotten for any social media thing I've ever posted.
I knew the #AllenInstitute had a good reputation, but wow, I was not expecting that.
I much prefer social media where only dozens of folks will see my inane thoughts lol
Now to go reject the 80+ LinkedIn connection requests from people I don't know...
A paper I was involved in creating is on the cover of #Nature magazine!
Many of the visualizations in the article were taken from the data visualization tool I've been working on for the last year.
Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06812-z
Visualization tool: https://knowledge.brain-map.org/data/LVDBJAW8BI5YSS1QUBG/explore
Scientists unveil complete cell atlas for mouse brain
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of a six-year-long scientific effort in which Seattle’s Allen Institute has played a leading role.
Nine studies published
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/13/scientists-unveil-complete-cell-atlas-for-mouse-brain/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #Brain #CellScience #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science
Scientists team up to turn cells into recording devices
The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington have launched a collaboration called the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, with the goal of using genetically modified cells to c
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/07/scientists-team-up-to-turn-cells-into-recording-devices/
#GeekWire #AllenInstitute #CellScience #ChanZuckerbergInitiative #DNA #Genetics #Health #Medicine #Science #UniversityOfWashington
Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M for neuroimmunology
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of the Seattle-based Allen Institute, is launching a research center in New York to focus on interactions between the nervous system and the immune system.
The Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Int
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/11/09/allen-frontiers-group-awards-10m-for-neuroimmunology/
#GeekWire #AllenFrontiersGroup #AllenInstitute #Health #Immunology #Medicine #Neuroscience #Science
Join us on Monday, November 13 for a noggin brain boost with #NWNoggin, #AmericanBrainCoalition, and the #AllenInstitute. We will explore the important of #publicoutreach and how an arts-integrated approach to #STEMeducation can bring excitement and inclusion to a wide variety of the youth population. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfi70Vd3MGavtoEc6scXuPfJvEA3Dr3dOcxRjH4DHLvBfWEXA/viewform
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