Accelerated Understanding, a startup founded by Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and AI infrastructure engineer Benedikt Jenik, emerged from stealth with a physics-simulation model that predicts phy…
Accelerated Understanding Inc, co-founded by Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, launched an AI model built on neural operator architecture instead of transformers, capable of proce…
AI experts Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, who were expected to lead Jeff Bezos's Project Prometheus, have instead launched Accelerated Understanding Inc., a company developing a physics-based AI…
Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik launched Accelerated Understanding on Tuesday, August 25, with a physics-focused foundation model that predicts physical systems across space and time, targeting se…
Accelerated Understanding Inc, co-founded by Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, unveiled an AI model that can process 5 trillion data points in a single prompt, about 5 million times more than Anthr…
The United Nations launched the AI Environmental Transparency initiative in June, requesting major AI companies to disclose carbon, water, and land-use data, and estimating that AI data centers will c…
California Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Big Bear Lake) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) introduced the bipartisan Frontier Act, which would impose the strongest federal regulations yet on frontier AI, followin…
Prism ML, a Caltech spinout, compressed the 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model to under 4GB, fitting entirely on a phone. Testing showed the compressed models lost specific factual knowledge but perf…
Cloud security startup Act Security Ltd. has raised $60 million in total funding, including a $20 million seed round led by Team8 and Bessemer Venture Partners and a $40 million Series A led by Notabl…
Artificial intelligence has already saturated academia, with 88% of UK students using generative AI for assessments in 2025, up from 53% the prior year, according to the Higher Education Policy Instit…
A skeptical analysis argues that AI enthusiasm may be self-deceptive, citing a late 2025 study finding developers using AI were 19% slower despite feeling faster. The author warns that AI tools are un…
Caltech professor Adam Wierman says cities can negotiate deals to mitigate the environmental and economic downsides of hyperscale data centers, as local communities in Southern California increasingly…
PrismML, a Caltech-spinout AI company backed by Khosla Ventures, Cerberus, Google, and Samsung, announced Bonsai 27B on July 14, the first 27.8-billion-parameter AI model that runs locally on mobile d…
PrismML released Bonsai 27B, a 27-billion-parameter AI model compressed to 3.9 GB that runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 11 tokens per second, the first model at that capability tier to fit on a smartph…
PrismML, a Caltech spinout, compressed Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B AI model from 54 gigabytes to 3.9 gigabytes using 1-bit and ternary quantization, enabling it to run natively on an iPhone 17 Pro at 11 tok…
Caltech spinout Oratomic has emerged from stealth with $300 million in funding to build a quantum computer using just 10,000 to 20,000 qubits by 2030, a figure that slashes industry estimates by a fac…
Apple is in exploratory talks to acquire PrismML, a Caltech spinout that uses ultra-low-bit compression to shrink large AI models by up to 14x, enabling them to run natively on iPhones. PrismML raised…
A practical framework for being 'agentic' is outlined by an anonymous author, who argues that agency simply means noticing useful tasks no one else is doing, deciding to act, and repeating the cycle. …
Apple has held exploratory discussions with Caltech-born startup PrismML about integrating its AI model compression technology into iPhones, according to a report from The Information. PrismML claims …
PrismML, a Caltech spinout backed by Khosla Ventures, emerged from stealth on March 31, 2026, claiming to have compressed Alibaba's 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 LLM from 54 GB to under 4 GB to run on…