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How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic↗

When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The next pandemic may not offer the same head start. To help improve the odds, NVIDIA has joined a coalition of global research organizations, including Google […]

1d agoNVIDIA Blog
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Introducing MentalHealthBench↗

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

3d agoOpenAI News
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From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale↗

Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and enterprises — building applications across industries. The event included a keynote from Paolo Guglielmini, vice president of EMEA at NVIDIA. Ahmed Mostafa, regional AI adoption lead […]

4d agoNVIDIA Blog
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Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT↗

Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a living benchmark to track computational performance. The post Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Aug 20, 2026Microsoft Research Blog
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MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities↗

A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Aug 12, 2026Microsoft Research Blog