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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

This is the vision behind a new language learning platform that recently launched. Then, you dive into the story and language through an informal video lesson called After Short. And if you want to spend a lifetime learning a language, it has to be entertaining, or else you will throw in the towel.

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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence. The teacher model generates data which then trains a smaller student model, helping to quickly transfer knowledge and predictions of the bigger model to the smaller one.

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MagniLearn uses AI to help students learn new languages, raises $2.8M

TechCrunch

There’s nothing easy about learning a language, and so it’s also maybe no surprise that there are plenty of startups that want to make life easier for students. One of the latest entrants to this market is MagniLearn , an AI-centric startup that provides students with individualized lessons based on their progress.

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Larger language models do in-context learning differently

Google Research AI blog

In “ Larger language models do in-context learning differently ”, we aim to learn about how these two factors (semantic priors and input-label mappings) interact with each other in ICL settings, especially with respect to the scale of the language model that’s used. targets) instead of natural language labels.

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PaLM-E: An embodied multimodal language model

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Danny Driess, Student Researcher, and Pete Florence, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Recent years have seen tremendous advances across machine learning domains, from models that can explain jokes or answer visual questions in a variety of languages to those that can produce images based on text descriptions.

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Tableau partners with the government of India to build students’ data skills

Tableau

It’s one of our guiding principles at Tableau and why we support students and instructors around the globe through Tableau Academic Programs. Now I hear, “What can we do to make Tableau easier for all students to learn?” or “How can I, as an educator, get better at Tableau to teach students?” Manager, APJ Community.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.