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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.

Special delivery: a new, realistic measure of vehicle routing algorithms

Monday, 8 December, 2025

Special delivery: a new, realistic measure of vehicle routing algorithms

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A new benchmark by researchers at MBZUAI simulates the unpredictable nature of delivery in cities, helping logistics companies with efficiency and costs.

K2: An open source model that delivers frontier capabilities

Friday, 5 December, 2025

K2: An open source model that delivers frontier capabilities

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MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models has released its latest version of K2 – a 70-billion-parameter, reasoning-centric foundation model designed not just to perform well, but to be fully inspectable.

Why 3D spatial reasoning still trips up today’s AI systems

Friday, 5 December, 2025

Why 3D spatial reasoning still trips up today’s AI systems

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A new benchmark by MBZUAI researchers shows how poorly current multimodal methods handle real-world geometric and perspective-based instructions.

Sir Michael Brady on why healthcare AI must move from detection to articulation

Thursday, 4 December, 2025

Sir Michael Brady on why healthcare AI must move from detection to articulation

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Speaking as part of MBZUAI’s Distinguished Lecture series, Sir Michael Brady discussed the future of healthcare and how AI can make a major breakthrough.

In line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the newly established Tahnoon bin Zayed Scholarship in AI Excellence program supports outstanding undergraduate talent at MBZUAI

Thursday, 4 December, 2025

In line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the newly established Tahnoon bin Zayed Scholarship in AI Excellence program supports outstanding undergraduate talent at MBZUAI

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This merit-based Scholarship aims to support approximately 350 undergraduate students over six years. Candidates will go through a rigorous selection process. Selection criteria will focus on mathematical fluency, leadership, and an entrepreneurial attitude. In addition to financial support, the recipients of this prestigious Scholarship will be provided with exclusive opportunities to represent the UAE at high-profile youth events locally and globally, and resources to pursue their entrepreneurship ventures and technology innovations.

Truth from uncertainty: using AI’s internal signals to spot hallucinations

Thursday, 4 December, 2025

Truth from uncertainty: using AI’s internal signals to spot hallucinations

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Researchers from MBZUAI created 'uncertainty quantification heads' to help make hallucination identification more accurate and efficient.

Causality meets reality: CausalVerse gives AI a harder, fairer test

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

Causality meets reality: CausalVerse gives AI a harder, fairer test

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A new benchmark from MBZUAI blends realism with ground truth – revealing how well causal models understand why things happen.

New synthetic-image detector focuses on what makes real images real

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

New synthetic-image detector focuses on what makes real images real

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MBZUAI's Mingming Gong explains how the ConV system identifies AI-generated images without relying on training data from synthetic sources.

What reinforcement learning can teach language models about reasoning

Monday, 1 December, 2025

What reinforcement learning can teach language models about reasoning

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GURU, a new benchmark from the Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI, exposes the uneven ways reasoning transfers between core domains.

CAPTCHAs aren’t just annoying, they’re a reality check for AI agents

Friday, 28 November, 2025

CAPTCHAs aren’t just annoying, they’re a reality check for AI agents

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A new benchmark from MBZUAI Ph.D. students shows why advanced web agents crumble on CAPTCHAs – and what it will take to fix them.

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