The best free AI model just landed — but almost nobody can run it at home
A powerful open model anyone can legally download has reignited the open-vs-closed debate — but it's so large that 'open' now means 'open if you own a small server.'
A 61-author paper argues AI leaderboards quietly mislead everyone
A large industry-led study makes a blunt case: the rankings everyone cites to pick the 'best' AI agent don't survive contact with the real world.
A robot hand learns to open things by reasoning about touch, not video
New research teaches multi-finger robot hands to manipulate things with moving parts — handles, drawers, hinges — by focusing on contact points, and stays steady even without touch sensors.
An image generator that catches and corrects its own errors mid-draw
Image-generating models often quietly break the very rule they were told to follow. A new method trains them to notice that error as they work and steer back on target.
Researchers turn the internet's hobbyist art 'filters' into training fuel
Cleanly separating 'what's in a picture' from 'what style it's in' usually needs scarce data. A new method mines the huge public library of community-made style add-ons instead.
AI builds a single 3D object that shows two different things from two angles
A new training-free method generates 3D visual illusions — one sculpture that reads as completely different objects depending on where you stand — in minutes instead of hours.