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Stay up-to-date with the latest news from MBZUAI and the wider industry, featuring insights into ongoing University research, innovations, and developments shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The Node gathers expert commentary, press announcements, and initiatives from the University and its partners, keeping you informed on the most relevant trends and breakthroughs.

Building an AI model that actually speaks Hindi

Thursday, 26 March, 2026

Building an AI model that actually speaks Hindi

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MBZUAI’s Nanda models for Hindi and English show that effective multilingual AI depends on cultural and linguistic design choices.

AI models are becoming cultural archives

Wednesday, 25 March, 2026

AI models are becoming cultural archives

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MBZUAI research shows how language models encode cultural knowledge — and how unevenly they express it across languages.

When disagreement becomes a signal for AI models

Tuesday, 24 March, 2026

When disagreement becomes a signal for AI models

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Research from MBZUAI and Melbourne offers new metrics and training approaches that aim to better align AI outputs with distributions of human judgment.

Alumni Spotlight: Building medical AI from the ground up

Tuesday, 24 March, 2026

Alumni Spotlight: Building medical AI from the ground up

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Working with hospitals across the UAE, MBZUAI alumnus Numan Saeed is helping build large medical datasets and AI models designed to support doctors in diagnosing and understanding disease.

Why AI can describe an image but struggles to understand the culture inside it

Monday, 23 March, 2026

Why AI can describe an image but struggles to understand the culture inside it

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A new MBZUAI paper, accepted at EACL 2026, introduces JEEM – a benchmark for evaluating how AI interprets images across Arabic dialects and cultures.

MBZUAI community comes together for Alumni Suhoor

Monday, 23 March, 2026

MBZUAI community comes together for Alumni Suhoor

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Alumni, faculty and staff came together during Ramadan for a night of connection and conversation.

Bridging biology and AI with domain knowledge

Wednesday, 18 March, 2026

Bridging biology and AI with domain knowledge

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When Haiyan Huang, Visiting Professor of Statistics and Data Science at MBZUAI, completed her doctoral program at the University of Southern California in the early 2000s, biology was entering a […]

Award-winning robotic fish take deep learning below the surface

Monday, 16 March, 2026

Award-winning robotic fish take deep learning below the surface

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MBZUAI's Cesare Stefanini helped develop the school of underwater robots, winning the Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Award for Environmental Research.

MBZUAI team awarded Google Academic Research Award to study loneliness in the age of AI

Friday, 13 March, 2026

MBZUAI team awarded Google Academic Research Award to study loneliness in the age of AI

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The project, led by Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury, and Aseem Srivastava, will study loneliness in digital spaces and guide safer AI companionship.

Alumni Spotlight: How Abdelrahman Shaker learned to redefine impact in AI

Monday, 9 March, 2026

Alumni Spotlight: How Abdelrahman Shaker learned to redefine impact in AI

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The MBZUAI alumnus explains how his focus has changed from papers to purpose since being awarded his Ph.D. in 2025.

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