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Meet Uche, our Summer 2025 Applied AI Program Design & Delivery Intern! 🌟
He led AI bootcamps & roundtables – now he’s an Associate Project Manager at Vector.
His advice: “Hit that submit button; you won’t regret it!”
Apply for Applied AI internships by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
He led AI bootcamps & roundtables – now he’s an Associate Project Manager at Vector.
His advice: “Hit that submit button; you won’t regret it!”
Apply for Applied AI internships by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
January 29, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Meet Uche, our Summer 2025 Applied AI Program Design & Delivery Intern! 🌟
He led AI bootcamps & roundtables – now he’s an Associate Project Manager at Vector.
His advice: “Hit that submit button; you won’t regret it!”
Apply for Applied AI internships by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
He led AI bootcamps & roundtables – now he’s an Associate Project Manager at Vector.
His advice: “Hit that submit button; you won’t regret it!”
Apply for Applied AI internships by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
Vector's Summer 2026 Applied Internship applications are now open!
This isn't a typical internship. You'll contribute to active AI implementation projects and work within Canada's premier AI research ecosystem. 4 specialised roles available.
Apply by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
This isn't a typical internship. You'll contribute to active AI implementation projects and work within Canada's premier AI research ecosystem. 4 specialised roles available.
Apply by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Vector's Summer 2026 Applied Internship applications are now open!
This isn't a typical internship. You'll contribute to active AI implementation projects and work within Canada's premier AI research ecosystem. 4 specialised roles available.
Apply by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
This isn't a typical internship. You'll contribute to active AI implementation projects and work within Canada's premier AI research ecosystem. 4 specialised roles available.
Apply by Feb 9: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
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What does neuroscience say about how language models represent meaning, and why isn't scale enough?
In this #WiAIRpodcast episode, we speak with @mryskina.bsky.social on neuroscience × AI, evaluation limits, interpretability, and why community shapes better research.
🎬 youtu.be/PQx4IvJR8Bg
In this #WiAIRpodcast episode, we speak with @mryskina.bsky.social on neuroscience × AI, evaluation limits, interpretability, and why community shapes better research.
🎬 youtu.be/PQx4IvJR8Bg
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What does neuroscience say about how language models represent meaning, and why isn't scale enough?
In this #WiAIRpodcast episode, we speak with @mryskina.bsky.social on neuroscience × AI, evaluation limits, interpretability, and why community shapes better research.
🎬 youtu.be/PQx4IvJR8Bg
In this #WiAIRpodcast episode, we speak with @mryskina.bsky.social on neuroscience × AI, evaluation limits, interpretability, and why community shapes better research.
🎬 youtu.be/PQx4IvJR8Bg
🚨 It's official! Nominations for 2026-27 Vector Scholarship in AI are OPEN!
Remember: Your program nominates you. Contact your administrator now about the nomination process
📅 Vector’s deadline: March 18 at 4 PM EST
📋 Info session: February 11 at 12 PM: vectorinstitute.swoogo.com/vsai_2026_pr...
Remember: Your program nominates you. Contact your administrator now about the nomination process
📅 Vector’s deadline: March 18 at 4 PM EST
📋 Info session: February 11 at 12 PM: vectorinstitute.swoogo.com/vsai_2026_pr...
January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
🚨 It's official! Nominations for 2026-27 Vector Scholarship in AI are OPEN!
Remember: Your program nominates you. Contact your administrator now about the nomination process
📅 Vector’s deadline: March 18 at 4 PM EST
📋 Info session: February 11 at 12 PM: vectorinstitute.swoogo.com/vsai_2026_pr...
Remember: Your program nominates you. Contact your administrator now about the nomination process
📅 Vector’s deadline: March 18 at 4 PM EST
📋 Info session: February 11 at 12 PM: vectorinstitute.swoogo.com/vsai_2026_pr...
Wrapping up another year of groundbreaking AI research and innovation, and deeply grateful to our incredible community who continue to push the boundaries of what's possible.
Thank you for making 2025 extraordinary. We'll see you back here on January 5.
Wishing everyone a restful holiday season 🎄
Thank you for making 2025 extraordinary. We'll see you back here on January 5.
Wishing everyone a restful holiday season 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wrapping up another year of groundbreaking AI research and innovation, and deeply grateful to our incredible community who continue to push the boundaries of what's possible.
Thank you for making 2025 extraordinary. We'll see you back here on January 5.
Wishing everyone a restful holiday season 🎄
Thank you for making 2025 extraordinary. We'll see you back here on January 5.
Wishing everyone a restful holiday season 🎄
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Our final paper of the year. On behalf of the Computational Neuroscience Lab and the entire University of Toronto community, happy holidays!
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroAI #compneuro #neuroscience
@uhn.ca @uhnresearch.ca @vectorinstitute.ai @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroAI #compneuro #neuroscience
@uhn.ca @uhnresearch.ca @vectorinstitute.ai @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Our final paper of the year. On behalf of the Computational Neuroscience Lab and the entire University of Toronto community, happy holidays!
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroAI #compneuro #neuroscience
@uhn.ca @uhnresearch.ca @vectorinstitute.ai @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroAI #compneuro #neuroscience
@uhn.ca @uhnresearch.ca @vectorinstitute.ai @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
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Chemistry Stories: Von Lilienfeld to edit new journal, PRX Intelligence: uoft.me/VLPRXIntelli...
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Chemistry Stories: Von Lilienfeld to edit new journal, PRX Intelligence: uoft.me/VLPRXIntelli...
This is the Vector difference: exclusive AI Summit access, sponsor company connections, and a talent hub with opportunities tailored for our students.
Steven's story shows how the VSAI opens doors beyond funding.
Ready to write your own success story?
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/sch...
Steven's story shows how the VSAI opens doors beyond funding.
Ready to write your own success story?
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/sch...
Vector Scholarship in AI - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence is a $17,500 entrance scholarship for pursuing AI master's or related programs in Ontario
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December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the Vector difference: exclusive AI Summit access, sponsor company connections, and a talent hub with opportunities tailored for our students.
Steven's story shows how the VSAI opens doors beyond funding.
Ready to write your own success story?
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/sch...
Steven's story shows how the VSAI opens doors beyond funding.
Ready to write your own success story?
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/sch...
"Receiving the scholarship was a massive confidence boost. It was external validation that I was on the right track, and such a leading institution like Vector actually believes in my potential."
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Receiving the scholarship was a massive confidence boost. It was external validation that I was on the right track, and such a leading institution like Vector actually believes in my potential."
Meet Steven Song, Vector Scholarship in AI recipient who turned networking into career success! 🚀
Steven connected with Roche at Vector's AI Summit, found their internship posting on Vector Talent Hub, and secured an 8-month role as a Data Science Associate Intern within weeks.
Steven connected with Roche at Vector's AI Summit, found their internship posting on Vector Talent Hub, and secured an 8-month role as a Data Science Associate Intern within weeks.
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Meet Steven Song, Vector Scholarship in AI recipient who turned networking into career success! 🚀
Steven connected with Roche at Vector's AI Summit, found their internship posting on Vector Talent Hub, and secured an 8-month role as a Data Science Associate Intern within weeks.
Steven connected with Roche at Vector's AI Summit, found their internship posting on Vector Talent Hub, and secured an 8-month role as a Data Science Associate Intern within weeks.
🌟 Meet Yisong Miao, Vector Research Intern
At Vector, Yisong tackled cultural bias in LLMs with Faculty Member Dr. Vered Shwartz, exploring why LLMs assume North American contexts and how to help them adapt to different cultures
Applications close Jan 12 at 1PM : vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
At Vector, Yisong tackled cultural bias in LLMs with Faculty Member Dr. Vered Shwartz, exploring why LLMs assume North American contexts and how to help them adapt to different cultures
Applications close Jan 12 at 1PM : vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🌟 Meet Yisong Miao, Vector Research Intern
At Vector, Yisong tackled cultural bias in LLMs with Faculty Member Dr. Vered Shwartz, exploring why LLMs assume North American contexts and how to help them adapt to different cultures
Applications close Jan 12 at 1PM : vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
At Vector, Yisong tackled cultural bias in LLMs with Faculty Member Dr. Vered Shwartz, exploring why LLMs assume North American contexts and how to help them adapt to different cultures
Applications close Jan 12 at 1PM : vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
In our final Vector Bytes episode for #NeurIPS2025: AI as your research partner 🎙️
From experiment design to DNA engineering, Vector Faculty Members are positioning AI to compress decades of scientific discovery into years.
🎧 The future of research is collaborative. Listen now.
From experiment design to DNA engineering, Vector Faculty Members are positioning AI to compress decades of scientific discovery into years.
🎧 The future of research is collaborative. Listen now.
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In our final Vector Bytes episode for #NeurIPS2025: AI as your research partner 🎙️
From experiment design to DNA engineering, Vector Faculty Members are positioning AI to compress decades of scientific discovery into years.
🎧 The future of research is collaborative. Listen now.
From experiment design to DNA engineering, Vector Faculty Members are positioning AI to compress decades of scientific discovery into years.
🎧 The future of research is collaborative. Listen now.
Explore all 80 papers at vectorinstitute.ai/vector-resea...
Vector researchers present 80 groundbreaking AI papers at NeurIPS 2025Vector researchers advance AI frontiers with 80 papers at NeurIPS 2025 - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Discover 80 cutting-edge AI research papers from Vector's community at NeurIPS 2025, spanning multimodal reasoning, biological AI, and foundational machine learning advances.
vectorinstitute.ai
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Explore all 80 papers at vectorinstitute.ai/vector-resea...
80 papers. 3 days. One remarkable research community.
Vector's contributions at #NeurIPS2025 span the full spectrum of AI research – from ethical data practices to biological reasoning to advanced optimization. 🇨🇦 Congratulations to all our community – we can’t wait to see what’s next!
Vector's contributions at #NeurIPS2025 span the full spectrum of AI research – from ethical data practices to biological reasoning to advanced optimization. 🇨🇦 Congratulations to all our community – we can’t wait to see what’s next!
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
80 papers. 3 days. One remarkable research community.
Vector's contributions at #NeurIPS2025 span the full spectrum of AI research – from ethical data practices to biological reasoning to advanced optimization. 🇨🇦 Congratulations to all our community – we can’t wait to see what’s next!
Vector's contributions at #NeurIPS2025 span the full spectrum of AI research – from ethical data practices to biological reasoning to advanced optimization. 🇨🇦 Congratulations to all our community – we can’t wait to see what’s next!
🔧 Technical Foundations: Infrastructure for AI progress
FreshStack (Jimmy Lin): Holistic framework for building realistic IR & RAG benchmarks on niche domains
Creating the evaluation systems that drive AI forward.
FreshStack (Jimmy Lin): Holistic framework for building realistic IR & RAG benchmarks on niche domains
Creating the evaluation systems that drive AI forward.
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🔧 Technical Foundations: Infrastructure for AI progress
FreshStack (Jimmy Lin): Holistic framework for building realistic IR & RAG benchmarks on niche domains
Creating the evaluation systems that drive AI forward.
FreshStack (Jimmy Lin): Holistic framework for building realistic IR & RAG benchmarks on niche domains
Creating the evaluation systems that drive AI forward.
🎯 RL & Optimization: Smarter decision-making systems
STITCH-OPE (Florian Shkurti): Guided diffusion for off-policy evaluation in high-dimensional spaces
CausalPFN (Rahul Krishnan): Pre-trained transformer for zero-tuning causal effect estimation
From correlation to true causation.
STITCH-OPE (Florian Shkurti): Guided diffusion for off-policy evaluation in high-dimensional spaces
CausalPFN (Rahul Krishnan): Pre-trained transformer for zero-tuning causal effect estimation
From correlation to true causation.
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎯 RL & Optimization: Smarter decision-making systems
STITCH-OPE (Florian Shkurti): Guided diffusion for off-policy evaluation in high-dimensional spaces
CausalPFN (Rahul Krishnan): Pre-trained transformer for zero-tuning causal effect estimation
From correlation to true causation.
STITCH-OPE (Florian Shkurti): Guided diffusion for off-policy evaluation in high-dimensional spaces
CausalPFN (Rahul Krishnan): Pre-trained transformer for zero-tuning causal effect estimation
From correlation to true causation.
👁️ Vision & Reasoning: Beyond traditional AI perception
Pixel Reasoner (Wenhu Chen): Pixel-space reasoning achieving 84% on V*bench, 74% on TallyQA-Complex
TIRE (Igor Gilitschenski): Subject-driven 3D/4D generation with superior identity preservation
AI that truly sees and reasons visually.
Pixel Reasoner (Wenhu Chen): Pixel-space reasoning achieving 84% on V*bench, 74% on TallyQA-Complex
TIRE (Igor Gilitschenski): Subject-driven 3D/4D generation with superior identity preservation
AI that truly sees and reasons visually.
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
👁️ Vision & Reasoning: Beyond traditional AI perception
Pixel Reasoner (Wenhu Chen): Pixel-space reasoning achieving 84% on V*bench, 74% on TallyQA-Complex
TIRE (Igor Gilitschenski): Subject-driven 3D/4D generation with superior identity preservation
AI that truly sees and reasons visually.
Pixel Reasoner (Wenhu Chen): Pixel-space reasoning achieving 84% on V*bench, 74% on TallyQA-Complex
TIRE (Igor Gilitschenski): Subject-driven 3D/4D generation with superior identity preservation
AI that truly sees and reasons visually.
🧬 Biological Reasoning: AI meets life sciences
BioReason (Chris Maddison & Bo Wang): DNA-LLM integration achieving 97% accuracy on disease pathway prediction
ELECTRA (Alán Aspuru-Guzik): Floating orbital approach for efficient molecular charge density prediction
BioReason (Chris Maddison & Bo Wang): DNA-LLM integration achieving 97% accuracy on disease pathway prediction
ELECTRA (Alán Aspuru-Guzik): Floating orbital approach for efficient molecular charge density prediction
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🧬 Biological Reasoning: AI meets life sciences
BioReason (Chris Maddison & Bo Wang): DNA-LLM integration achieving 97% accuracy on disease pathway prediction
ELECTRA (Alán Aspuru-Guzik): Floating orbital approach for efficient molecular charge density prediction
BioReason (Chris Maddison & Bo Wang): DNA-LLM integration achieving 97% accuracy on disease pathway prediction
ELECTRA (Alán Aspuru-Guzik): Floating orbital approach for efficient molecular charge density prediction
📊 Data & Model Attribution: Building ethical AI foundations
The Common Pile (Colin Raffel): 8TB of openly licensed text training a competitive 7B-parameter LLM
What is Your Data Worth to GPT? (Roger Grosse): 6,500x faster influence functions with 5x less memory
The Common Pile (Colin Raffel): 8TB of openly licensed text training a competitive 7B-parameter LLM
What is Your Data Worth to GPT? (Roger Grosse): 6,500x faster influence functions with 5x less memory
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📊 Data & Model Attribution: Building ethical AI foundations
The Common Pile (Colin Raffel): 8TB of openly licensed text training a competitive 7B-parameter LLM
What is Your Data Worth to GPT? (Roger Grosse): 6,500x faster influence functions with 5x less memory
The Common Pile (Colin Raffel): 8TB of openly licensed text training a competitive 7B-parameter LLM
What is Your Data Worth to GPT? (Roger Grosse): 6,500x faster influence functions with 5x less memory
Final day at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego 🎯
Vector's research community wraps up with foundational breakthroughs in data attribution, biological reasoning, and AI optimization. Here's how we're shaping AI's future: 🧵
Vector's research community wraps up with foundational breakthroughs in data attribution, biological reasoning, and AI optimization. Here's how we're shaping AI's future: 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Final day at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego 🎯
Vector's research community wraps up with foundational breakthroughs in data attribution, biological reasoning, and AI optimization. Here's how we're shaping AI's future: 🧵
Vector's research community wraps up with foundational breakthroughs in data attribution, biological reasoning, and AI optimization. Here's how we're shaping AI's future: 🧵
Vector Bytes #NeurIPS2025 Daily Digest continues with exploring the critical question: Can we trust AI systems? 🎙️
Vector Faculty Members are tackling uncertainty quantification, content safety, deployment monitoring, and robotic reliability – building the foundation for AI we can rely on.
Vector Faculty Members are tackling uncertainty quantification, content safety, deployment monitoring, and robotic reliability – building the foundation for AI we can rely on.
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Vector Bytes #NeurIPS2025 Daily Digest continues with exploring the critical question: Can we trust AI systems? 🎙️
Vector Faculty Members are tackling uncertainty quantification, content safety, deployment monitoring, and robotic reliability – building the foundation for AI we can rely on.
Vector Faculty Members are tackling uncertainty quantification, content safety, deployment monitoring, and robotic reliability – building the foundation for AI we can rely on.
Day 2 showcases Vector's commitment to fundamental research that tackles real-world challenges.
From molecular dynamics to AI safety, our research community is building the scientific foundations for tomorrow's breakthroughs. 🇨🇦
Full list of accepted papers: vectorinstitute.ai/vector-resea...
From molecular dynamics to AI safety, our research community is building the scientific foundations for tomorrow's breakthroughs. 🇨🇦
Full list of accepted papers: vectorinstitute.ai/vector-resea...
Vector researchers present 80 groundbreaking AI papers at NeurIPS 2025Vector researchers advance AI frontiers with 80 papers at NeurIPS 2025 - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Discover 80 cutting-edge AI research papers from Vector's community at NeurIPS 2025, spanning multimodal reasoning, biological AI, and foundational machine learning advances.
vectorinstitute.ai
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Day 2 showcases Vector's commitment to fundamental research that tackles real-world challenges.
From molecular dynamics to AI safety, our research community is building the scientific foundations for tomorrow's breakthroughs. 🇨🇦
Full list of accepted papers: vectorinstitute.ai/vector-resea...
From molecular dynamics to AI safety, our research community is building the scientific foundations for tomorrow's breakthroughs. 🇨🇦
Full list of accepted papers: vectorinstitute.ai/vector-resea...
🤖 Computer-Use Agents: Democratizing AI development
OpenCUA (Victor Zhong): Open foundations for computer-use agents with 27K demonstrations
AgentNet-7B achieves 20.1% success on OSWorld, 21.1% on WindowsAgentArena
Building the future of AI agents, openly.
OpenCUA (Victor Zhong): Open foundations for computer-use agents with 27K demonstrations
AgentNet-7B achieves 20.1% success on OSWorld, 21.1% on WindowsAgentArena
Building the future of AI agents, openly.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🤖 Computer-Use Agents: Democratizing AI development
OpenCUA (Victor Zhong): Open foundations for computer-use agents with 27K demonstrations
AgentNet-7B achieves 20.1% success on OSWorld, 21.1% on WindowsAgentArena
Building the future of AI agents, openly.
OpenCUA (Victor Zhong): Open foundations for computer-use agents with 27K demonstrations
AgentNet-7B achieves 20.1% success on OSWorld, 21.1% on WindowsAgentArena
Building the future of AI agents, openly.
🧬 Biological AI: Engineering life with AI
Ctrl-DNA (Bo Wang): Controllable cell-type-specific regulatory DNA design via constrained RL
RETRO SYNFLOW (Renjie Liao): Discrete flow-matching for accurate retrosynthesis prediction
AI-powered synthetic biology and drug discovery.
Ctrl-DNA (Bo Wang): Controllable cell-type-specific regulatory DNA design via constrained RL
RETRO SYNFLOW (Renjie Liao): Discrete flow-matching for accurate retrosynthesis prediction
AI-powered synthetic biology and drug discovery.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🧬 Biological AI: Engineering life with AI
Ctrl-DNA (Bo Wang): Controllable cell-type-specific regulatory DNA design via constrained RL
RETRO SYNFLOW (Renjie Liao): Discrete flow-matching for accurate retrosynthesis prediction
AI-powered synthetic biology and drug discovery.
Ctrl-DNA (Bo Wang): Controllable cell-type-specific regulatory DNA design via constrained RL
RETRO SYNFLOW (Renjie Liao): Discrete flow-matching for accurate retrosynthesis prediction
AI-powered synthetic biology and drug discovery.
🛡️ AI Safety & Robustness: Building trustworthy systems
SAFE (Igor Gilitschenski & Florian Shkurti): Multitask failure detection for vision-language-action models
DiffBreak (Yaoliang Yu): Exposing vulnerabilities in diffusion-based purification defenses
Making AI systems safer for deployment.
SAFE (Igor Gilitschenski & Florian Shkurti): Multitask failure detection for vision-language-action models
DiffBreak (Yaoliang Yu): Exposing vulnerabilities in diffusion-based purification defenses
Making AI systems safer for deployment.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🛡️ AI Safety & Robustness: Building trustworthy systems
SAFE (Igor Gilitschenski & Florian Shkurti): Multitask failure detection for vision-language-action models
DiffBreak (Yaoliang Yu): Exposing vulnerabilities in diffusion-based purification defenses
Making AI systems safer for deployment.
SAFE (Igor Gilitschenski & Florian Shkurti): Multitask failure detection for vision-language-action models
DiffBreak (Yaoliang Yu): Exposing vulnerabilities in diffusion-based purification defenses
Making AI systems safer for deployment.