Why it matters: AI research is progressing faster than we're able to judge its many implications, even though we're still far from creating a so-called artificial general intelligence. Every time we ...

It has been a wild few weeks and an eventful few months in AI: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Stargate, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce, Google, Elon Musk, and much more. With the DeepSeek advances in ...

Ali Farhadi is no tech rebel. The 42-year-old computer scientist is a highly respected researcher, a professor at the University of Washington and the founder of a startup that was acquired by Apple, ...

Award-winning immunologist Susan Kaech is the new executive vice president of the Allen Institute’s Immunology Moonshot, an initiative that aims to understand the immune system’s role in human health ...

The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has written about ...

The Allen Institute for AI, a nonprofit organization created by the late Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, said today it’s bringing more transparency into the generative artificial intelligence ...

Yesterday, I wrote about a researcher “hacking” into Stephen Hawking’s mind with a new device called the iBrain. But for most scientists, hacking the brain doesn’t mean bypassing the physical body — ...

A computerized model provides a detailed biophysical representation of a neuron’s firing pattern. (Allen Institute for Brain Science via YouTube) Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science has ...

Ali Farhadi is stepping down as the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), after a two-and-a-half-year tenure that brought growing recognition to the Seattle-based nonprofit research institute as a ...

The Allen Institute for Brain Science has added the first data from human nerve cells to the Allen Cell Types Database: a publicly available tool for researchers to explore and understand the building ...