Insilico Medicine has launched a DDD Benchmark as a Service to test frontier AI and foundation models against real-world drug discovery and development tasks.

A Communications of the ACM article proposes a framework for evaluating openness in foundation models, a key issue for enterprise AI buyers and builders.

Palo Alto-based Rhoda AI secured $450 million in Series A funding led by Premji Invest, reaching a $1.7 billion valuation, to develop foundational robotics models trained on publicly available internet videos using its 'Direct Video Action' approach—aiming to give robots the generalization ability that teleoperation alone cannot provide.

Microsoft develops MAI-1-preview foundation model trained on 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, reducing OpenAI reliance while maintaining partnership through 2032.

Harvard researchers publish BrainIAC foundation model in Nature Neuroscience, predicting dementia, stroke, and cancer from 48,900 MRI scans.

BrainIAC foundation model predicts brain age, dementia risk, and cancer survival from MRI scans. Trained on 48,965 scans, published in Nature Neuroscience.