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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.

Following in the footsteps of the Godfather

Thursday, 7 August, 2025

Following in the footsteps of the Godfather

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When MBZUAI alumnus Rohit Bharadwaj joined the University of Edinburgh as a Ph.D. candidate, he followed in the footsteps of the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton. But as he explains, he's forging a path all his own.

How dialectal pretraining improves Arabic automatic speech recognition

Wednesday, 6 August, 2025

How dialectal pretraining improves Arabic automatic speech recognition

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Researchers from MBZUAI used MSA, classical Arabic, and dialects from North Africa, the Levant, and the Gulf to enhance ASR performance.

How jailbreak attacks work and a new way to stop them

Monday, 4 August, 2025

How jailbreak attacks work and a new way to stop them

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Lang Gao and fellow MBZUAI researchers have developed a new approach to improve the safety of LLMs against jailbreak attacks.

Measuring cultural commonsense in the Arabic-speaking world with a new benchmark

Wednesday, 30 July, 2025

Measuring cultural commonsense in the Arabic-speaking world with a new benchmark

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A team from MBZUAI and other institutions presented a new dataset at ACL, aiming to help AI models capture Arabic cultural nuances.

MBZUAI Joins Aspen Institute’s Technology Leaders Initiative

Tuesday, 29 July, 2025

MBZUAI Joins Aspen Institute’s Technology Leaders Initiative

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New two-year Aspen Global Leadership Network program aims to ignite the moral imagination of senior leaders shaping our digital future.

When medical AI meets messy reality

Tuesday, 29 July, 2025

When medical AI meets messy reality

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Raza Imam won best paper at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis conference for his research on how to build AI models that are more resilient to tiny errors in medical images.

Overcoming the ‘reversal curse’ in LLMs with ReCall

Monday, 28 July, 2025

Overcoming the ‘reversal curse’ in LLMs with ReCall

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A team from MBZUAI will present their research on 'self-referencing causal cycles' at ACL, in a bid to improve the performance of language models.

Composition and code: how Gus Xia is using music and metaphysics to advance AI

Friday, 25 July, 2025

Composition and code: how Gus Xia is using music and metaphysics to advance AI

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Xia’s eclectic approach to AI will be put to good use as he teaches MBZUAI’s debut cohort of undergraduate students.

Understanding faith in the age of AI

Thursday, 24 July, 2025

Understanding faith in the age of AI

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MBZUAI hosted a panel discussion in collaboration with the Manara Center for Coexistence and Dialogue focused on the role of faith and spirituality in an era dominated by advanced technology.

The AI model improving air pollution prediction

Wednesday, 23 July, 2025

The AI model improving air pollution prediction

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MBZUAI's Salman Khan and Vishal Nedungadi won the best paper award at ICML's TerraBytes workshop for AirCast – a real-time air quality forecasting system.

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