article thumbnail

Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

NVIDIA AI Blog

Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University. We know theres immense opportunity for exploration, but we dont yet know what were going to discover.

article thumbnail

Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away

Mashable Tech

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence," William Balmer, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University who led the new research, said in a statement. "We This allows us to see far more of the universe.

Images 144
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

[Photo: Ramp Up Reykjavk] An age-old accessibility problem Creating accessibility in any urban environment is often met with logistical and bureaucratic challenges. But in cities with historic buildings that predate modern accessibility standards by decades or even centuries, those challenges are even further amplified.

Iceland 145
article thumbnail

How tech can help people with dementia stay in the workplace longer

Fast Company Tech

Research shows that touchscreens can be particularly challenging for older people with dementia. Our own employer, the University of Bath, has a repository of reasonable adjustments that can be tailored to support staff and students experiencing mental illness. This is hardly futuristic tech. Read the original article.

People 129
article thumbnail

The water at these schools comes almost entirely from rain

Fast Company Tech

At a remote elementary school in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, until recently, access to safe drinking water was a daily challenge. In the dry season, from December to April, droughts made the challenge worse. He realized that access to clean drinking water was a challenge even in areas with abundant rain.

Nepal 101
article thumbnail

Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages

Google Research AI blog

However, some of these languages are spoken by fewer than twenty million people, so a core challenge is how to support languages for which there are relatively few speakers or limited available data. Today, we are excited to share more about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a critical first step towards supporting 1,000 languages.

Language 140
article thumbnail

Meta announces plans to build an AI-powered ‘universal speech translator’

The Verge

Meta says it wants to overcome these challenges by deploying new machine learning techniques in two specific areas. Instead, the company stressed the utopian possibilities of universal language translation. And similar cases involving questionable translations occupy Facebook’s Oversight Board to this day.