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Welcome to The Short, IBM Research's recap of the latest innovations in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and the cloud.
Week of January 27 - February 3, 2025
In this week's edition:
How analog in-memory computing could power the AI models of tomorrow
Analog in-memory computing could power future AI workloads, according to three new papers from IBM Research that move this experimental technology one step closer to coming out of the lab and into the world. These unconventional processors intertwine compute with memory stored in advanced materials, removing data bottlenecks to speed up inference with expected energy savings. In their new publications, researchers demonstrated that analog in-memory computing has major advantages for deploying both large mixture of experts (MoE) models and small edge models, as well as accelerating transformer attention.
The 2024 IBM Research annual letter
The 2024 IBM Research annual letter is here. It’s a detailed dive into all the major breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, semiconductor tech, and fundamental science that we’ve achieved over the last year. As we look ahead, 2025 also happens to be the 80th anniversary of the founding of IBM Research. We took time to explore our earliest days and how they set us up for so many decades of innovation. But equally important is where we’re going next — the breakthroughs ahead, our leaders’ vision for the future of computing and the impact on communities around the world. Spend some time with the letter as we prepare for the next 80 years of innovation, and beyond.
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A benchmark for evaluating conversational RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a popular way of using AI to find reliable and verifiable answers to questions quickly. It's one reason why LLMs have become so good at one-off question-answering tasks. But once a task gets complicated, requiring an extended back-and-forth conversation, LLM performance drops. IBM researchers created a new benchmark and dataset,?MTRAG, to see how well RAG agents do in scenarios designed to mimic a live chat and to ultimately improve their conversational abilities.
Research Roundup
Highlighting new publications from IBM researchers that we liked the sound of:
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In 80 years there will probably be floating cities on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, colonies on Mars, and an exhaustion of supplies on minerals on earth. Armies will largely be manned by robots, and flying cars and motor cycles will allow many roads to be converted into scenic byways. Capers Jones