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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.

How computer vision model architecture and training affect performance

Monday, 22 July, 2024

How computer vision model architecture and training affect performance

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Zhiqiang Shen, assistant professor of machine learning at MBZUAI, discusses one of 25 studies being presented by MBZUAI researchers at ICML 2024.

Alumni Spotlight: Changing the game for the UAE’s healthcare industry

Friday, 19 July, 2024

Alumni Spotlight: Changing the game for the UAE’s healthcare industry

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Freddy Jimenez, MBZUAI alumnus and Pfizer’s innovation lead for the Middle East, Africa and Russia, aims to accelerate healthcare in the region with the help of AI.

First-ever MBZUAI Summer School for high school students shows high demand and promising future AI practitioners

Wednesday, 17 July, 2024

First-ever MBZUAI Summer School for high school students shows high demand and promising future AI practitioners

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Thirty-eight grade 11 students from across the UAE experienced a glimpse into the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and what a career in the field may look like at the first dedicated summer school at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Masdar City last week.

Alumni Spotlight: How Sulaiman AlJanahi bridged the gap between academia and industry

Thursday, 11 July, 2024

Alumni Spotlight: How Sulaiman AlJanahi bridged the gap between academia and industry

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One of the key missions of (MBZUAI) is to take the groundbreaking academic and research initiatives of its students and faculty and use it to positively impact the world around us.

LLMs tackle math word problems

Monday, 8 July, 2024

LLMs tackle math word problems

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In a bid to discover how LLMs might teach math word problems to students more effectively, Ekaterina Kochmar sought to determine what makes such problems difficult for a machine to answer.

MBZUAI welcomes largest-ever cohort to its undergraduate artificial intelligence research internship

Monday, 1 July, 2024

MBZUAI welcomes largest-ever cohort to its undergraduate artificial intelligence research internship

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Forty-five international STEM students have been exposed to cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) research and world-leading faculty as part of a month-long undergraduate internship at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi.

Facts and fabrications: New insights to improve fake news detection

Thursday, 27 June, 2024

Facts and fabrications: New insights to improve fake news detection

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A recent study by Preslav Nakov considers how scientists can develop systems to detect fake news in a complex and evolving media landscape in which text, both true and false, can be generated by either humans or machines.

A next step for embodied agents: Ivan Laptev on world models

Wednesday, 26 June, 2024

A next step for embodied agents: Ivan Laptev on world models

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Inspired by questions posed in "The Matrix," Ivan Laptev aims to transfer advances in computer vision to robots inhabiting the real world.

Towards the generation of more realistic avatars in virtual worlds

Monday, 24 June, 2024

Towards the generation of more realistic avatars in virtual worlds

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How the MBZUAI Metaverse Center is helping people do things in virtual worlds that they can’t do in real life.

Breathing new life into medical applications

Tuesday, 11 June, 2024

Breathing new life into medical applications

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Having seen the potential of computer vision to positively impact people’s lives, Ahmed Ibrahim Sharshar was determined to make a difference through his research.

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