The Short

Welcome back to The Short, a biweekly recap of IBM’s latest innovations and research in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and hybrid cloud. For more news, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter, Future Forward.

Week of February 9 - February 16, 2024

What’s new in innovation

The future of AI research comes to Albany

“At the heart of America’s semiconductor heritage sits the University at Albany. Within those walls will soon be a cluster of new processors that may well help uncover a path for the future of AI hardware development. And those processors were designed just down the road by IBM…”

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Spotlight

DARPA and IBM are ensuring that anyone can protect their AI systems from hackers

“As part of DARPA’s GARD project, IBM researchers have been working on red and blue team tools to detect sophisticated attacks on AI models and how to protect against them. And now, IBM's toolkit supports Hugging Face models…”

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In case you missed it

A single-molecule magnetic switch

“Polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons are organic molecules made only of carbon and hydrogen atoms, and which contain several closed rings of carbon atoms. The term ‘conjugated’ refers to the system of sideways overlap of p orbitals in these molecules that gives rise to so-called π bonds…”

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AI Alliance Announces 25+ New Members, Launches AI Safety Tooling and AI Policy Working Groups to Enable Open, Safe, and Responsible AI for All

“The AI Alliance, an international community of developers, researchers, and organizations dedicated to promoting open, safe and responsible artificial intelligence, today announced the addition of more than 20 new members, bringing together a diverse mix of academia, startups, enterprises, and scientific organizations from around the globe…”

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