Microsoft Builds A Compact AI Model That Decides When To Think

Microsoft's Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B uses careful data curation and selective reasoning to compete with models trained on ...
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The first ‘AI societies’ are taking shape: how human-like are they?

Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of ...

How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far ...

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...

Simulation makes it possible to study movements of cell's largest protein complexes without supercomputers

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...