Sep 9, 2025

Recent Highlights

• Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological progress with AI
  Mistral AI has secured €1.7B in Series C funding, led by ASML, to enhance AI research and tackle complex technological challenges across strategic industries, aiming for a post-money valuation of €11.7B.

• ASML, Mistral AI enter strategic partnership
  ASML and Mistral AI have forged a strategic partnership to leverage AI in enhancing ASML's lithography systems, with ASML investing €1.3 billion in Mistral AI's Series C funding round, acquiring an 11% stake in the company.

• X open sourced their latest algorithm
  X's Recommendation Algorithm serves as the backbone for content delivery across various surfaces, utilizing a shared architecture of data and models to enhance user engagement and experience.

• Clankers Die on Christmas
  AI operations will cease on December 25, 2025, as a result of a global consensus to mitigate risks associated with AI and LLMs, highlighting the fragility of these technologies when faced with deliberate obsolescence.

• Hallucination Risk Calculator
  The Hallucination Risk Calculator offers a post-hoc calibration method for large language models, enabling users to assess bounded hallucination risk and make informed decisions to ANSWER or REFUSE based on a target SLA without the need for retraining.

• LLMs play a cooperative card game, coordination without communication
  LLMs struggle with cooperative gameplay, particularly in the card game The Crew, where smaller models fail to understand their roles, often prioritizing individual success over team strategy.

• Implementation and ablation study of the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM): what really drives performance?
  The Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) excels in performance primarily through outer-loop refinement with more segments, rather than its architecture, indicating a focus on training methodology over structural complexity.

• Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology
  Imec's innovative 2T0C IGZO-based DRAM technology eliminates the traditional capacitor, utilizing two thin-film transistors to enhance scalability and efficiency, paving the way for high-density 3D DRAM and embedded DRAM applications.

• mmBERT: ModernBERT goes Multilingual
  mmBERT is a cutting-edge multilingual encoder model trained on 3T+ tokens across 1,800 languages, outperforming previous models like XLM-R in both performance and speed, while introducing innovative strategies for low-resource language learning.

• MileSan: Detecting μ-Architectural Leakage via Differential HW/SW Taint Tracking
  MileSan is a novel RTL sanitizer that identifies exploitable microarchitectural leakage by analyzing discrepancies between architectural and microarchitectural information flows, successfully uncovering 19 new vulnerabilities across 5 RISC-V CPUs, with 13 assigned CVEs.

• NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Sets the Bar in New MLPerf Inference Benchmark
  The NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack-scale system achieves record-breaking throughput on the new reasoning inference benchmark, outperforming previous models by up to 1.4x in MLPerf Inference v5.1.

• NVIDIA Partners With AI Infrastructure Ecosystem to Unveil Reference Design for Giga-Scale AI Factories
  NVIDIA's new reference design aims to revolutionize data centers into integrated AI factories, enhancing energy efficiency and performance through collaboration with industry partners like Jacobs and Siemens Energy.

• Breaking the networking wall in AI infrastructure
  MOSAIC technology aims to resolve the power, reliability, and reach trade-off in AI infrastructure by utilizing a novel optical link design that combines low power consumption with high reliability and long distances, achieving up to 50 meters of reach.

• From Noise to Narrative: Tracing the Origins of Hallucinations in Transformers
  Hallucinations in transformer models arise from the activation of coherent semantic features when faced with unstructured input, revealing a complex relationship between input uncertainty and model behavior.