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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.

Understanding modern machine learning models through the lens of high-dimensional statistics

Wednesday, 22 March, 2023

Understanding modern machine learning models through the lens of high-dimensional statistics

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Modern machine learning tasks are often high-dimensional, due to the large amount of data, features, and trainable parameters. Mathematical tools such as random matrix theory have been developed to precisely […]

MBZUAI teams shine in competition

Wednesday, 22 March, 2023

MBZUAI teams shine in competition

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Two teams from MBZUAI took home top honors from the IEEE SLT international hackathon, held in Qatar in January 2023. The teams, consisting of MBZUAI master's students and research assistants, competed against 18 other teams from more than 30 countries.

Towards embodied multi-modal visual understanding

Monday, 20 March, 2023

Towards embodied multi-modal visual understanding

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Visual understanding of images and videos has come a long way from object and action recognition in simple scenes to event captioning and localization, visual question answering, language-based image manipulation, […]

MBZUAI and IBT join forces to tackle challenges in brain health

Monday, 20 March, 2023

MBZUAI and IBT join forces to tackle challenges in brain health

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Infinite Brain Technologies (IBT) and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have this week entered a five-year research and development agreement. The two industry thought leaders will form a joint research lab in order to develop precise, personalized Digital Therapeutics (DTx) for human brain health by optimizing the power of artificial intelligence technologies.

MBZUAI future AI leaders explore internships, career inspiration at the university’s fair

Thursday, 16 March, 2023

MBZUAI future AI leaders explore internships, career inspiration at the university’s fair

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Master’s and doctoral students currently pursuing degrees from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) had the opportunity to network with industry partners at the university’s second in-person Internships and Opportunities Fair. The fair provides a platform for students to secure on-the-job experience and gain exposure to potential employers.

Advancing computer vision with common sense

Thursday, 16 March, 2023

Advancing computer vision with common sense

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If you have followed the news recently, you may have read about AI’s ability to generate a wide variety of images of humans who have never actually existed in real life. For example, OpenAI’s Dall-E is a free and widely used deep learning model that generates digital images. Type in a simple prompt — such as “a man in a suit walking to work carrying a coffee” — and the results may be surprisingly realistic at first glance.

MBZUAI and BioMap establish first biocomputing innovation research lab in Middle East

Wednesday, 15 March, 2023

MBZUAI and BioMap establish first biocomputing innovation research lab in Middle East

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and BioMap signed a historic MoU on the university’s Masdar City campus to establish a biocomputing innovation research laboratory.

AI is crucial for achieving UAE’s Net Zero goals by 2050: Sheikha Shamma

Monday, 13 March, 2023

AI is crucial for achieving UAE’s Net Zero goals by 2050: Sheikha Shamma

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crucial for the UAE in its ambitious efforts to tackle climate change, according to a senior Emirati official who graduated an AI programme from the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

AI program graduates tackle national challenges

Friday, 10 March, 2023

AI program graduates tackle national challenges

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Two Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) Executive Program (MEP) teams presented their winning AI sustainability solutions at last night’s graduation ceremony for the program’s second and third cohorts held at the university’s Masdar City campus.

MBZUAI president on AI careers and the real concern for ChatGPT: Business Extra

Friday, 10 March, 2023

MBZUAI president on AI careers and the real concern for ChatGPT: Business Extra

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Professor Eric Xing, the president of Abu Dhabi's Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, joins host Kelsey Warner this week after the university's inaugural class graduated.

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