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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 2d

New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items news.mit.edu/2025/refashi... #abovepromotions #AI

New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items

To reduce waste, the Refashion program helps users create outlines for adaptable clothing, such as pants that can be reconfigured into a dress. Each component of these pieces can be replaced, rearranged, or restyled.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 2d

Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects news.mit.edu/2025/method-... #chat #ML

Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects

After being trained with this technique, vision-language models can better identify a unique item in a new scene.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro  Bamberger, a pioneer in music education news.mit.edu/2025/remembe... #AI #ML

Remembering Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro  Bamberger, a pioneer in music education

The former department chair was an early innovator in the use of artificial intelligence to both study and influence how children learn music.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 5d

Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition news.mit.edu/2025/optimiz... #chat #AI

Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition

An algorithm can change the face of food assistance policy in the Global South, says MIT assistant professor and J-WAFS researcher Ali Aouad.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 9d

Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress news.mit.edu/2025/ray-kur... #AI #abovepromotions

Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress

Receiving the Robert A. Muh award, the technologist and author heralded a bright future for AI, breakthroughs in longevity, and more.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 11d

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI news.mit.edu/2025/mit-sch... #ML #abovepromotions

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI

The MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program will unite faculty and students from both institutions to advance AI and accelerate its use in pressing scientific and societal challenges.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 12d

Fighting for the health of the planet with AI news.mit.edu/2025/fightin... #abovepromotions #AI

Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

Assistant Professor Priya Donti’s research applies machine learning to optimize renewable energy.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 15d

AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria news.mit.edu/2025/ai-maps... #AI #chat

AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria

MIT CSAIL and McMaster researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 19d

Responding to the climate impact of generative AI news.mit.edu/2025/respond... #chat #ML

Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

Explosive growth of AI data centers is expected to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers are now seeking solutions to reduce these environmental harms.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 23d

AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials news.mit.edu/2025/ai-syst... #abovepromotions #AI

AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials

The new “CRESt” platform could help find solutions to real-world energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 26d

MIT affiliates win AI for Math grants to accelerate mathematical discovery news.mit.edu/2025/ai-for-... #abovepromotions #AI

MIT affiliates win AI for Math grants to accelerate mathematical discovery

Department of Mathematics researchers David Roe and Andrew Sutherland seek to advance automated theorem proving; four additional MIT alumni also awarded.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 27d

New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials news.mit.edu/2025/new-too... #AI #ML

New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials

With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · 28d

What does the future hold for generative AI? news.mit.edu/2025/what-do... #abovepromotions #ML

What does the future hold for generative AI?

At the inaugural MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Symposium, researchers and business leaders discussed potential advancements centered on this powerful technology.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Sep 18

How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization news.mit.edu/2025/how-bui... #ML #chat

How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a universal guide for estimating how large language models will perform based on smaller models in the same family.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Sep 12

DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions news.mit.edu/2025/mit-cen... #chat #AI

DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions

The research center, sponsored by the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, will advance the simulation of extreme environments, such as those in hypersonic flight and atmospheric reentry.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Sep 9

AI and machine learning for engineering design news.mit.edu/2025/ai-mach... #abovepromotions #chat

AI and machine learning for engineering design

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Sep 5

A greener way to 3D print stronger stuff news.mit.edu/2025/greener... #chat #abovepromotions

A greener way to 3D print stronger stuff

MIT CSAIL researchers developed SustainaPrint, a system that reinforces only the weakest zones of eco-friendly 3D prints, achieving strong results with less plastic.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Sep 4

3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI news.mit.edu/2025/3-quest... #abovepromotions #AI

3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI

Artificially created data offer benefits from cost savings to privacy preservation, but their limitations require careful planning and evaluation, Kalyan Veeramachaneni says.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Sep 3

3 Questions: On biology and medicine’s “data revolution” news.mit.edu/2025/3-quest... #AI #abovepromotions

3 Questions: On biology and medicine’s “data revolution”

Professor Caroline Uhler discusses her work at the Schmidt Center, thorny problems in math, and the ongoing quest to understand some of the most complex interactions in biology.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Aug 30

MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection news.mit.edu/2025/vaxseer... #ML #abovepromotions

MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Aug 27

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction news.mit.edu/2025/simpler... #abovepromotions #chat

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

New research shows the natural variability in climate data can cause AI models to struggle at predicting local temperature and rainfall.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Aug 19

Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models news.mit.edu/2025/researc... #abovepromotions #chat

Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models

A new approach can reveal the features AI models use to predict proteins that might make good drug or vaccine targets.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Aug 16

How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies news.mit.edu/2025/how-ai-... #chat #ML

How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies

MIT engineers used a machine-learning model to design nanoparticles that can deliver RNA to cells more efficiently.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Aug 14

A new way to test how well AI systems classify text news.mit.edu/2025/new-way... #abovepromotions #AI

A new way to test how well AI systems classify text

As large language models increasingly dominate our everyday lives, new systems for checking their reliability are more important than ever.

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Above Promotions @abovepromotions.bsky.social · Aug 8

Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions news.mit.edu/2025/eco-dri... #ML #abovepromotions

Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions

New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.

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