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Ai2 Launches Asta, an Open Agentic Ecosystem for Science
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has introduced Asta, a new AI platform that combines an agentic research assistant, a benchmark suite for evaluating scientific agents, and developer resources ...Full Article
From Hypothesis to Hardware: Four Voices on the Future of Scientific AI at TPC25
From national labs to hyperscale clouds to academic research, Wednesday's first plenary session at TPC25 asked the same question from different angles: What will it take for AI to ...Full Article
Beyond Speed: TPC25 Maps the Road to Science-Ready AI
So far this week, TPC25 has brought together researchers who share one goal: to turn frontier-scale AI into a practical scientific tool. Tuesday's afternoon talks captured the range of ...Full Article
Agentic AI Sets the Tone at TPC25’s Hackathon and Tutorial Plenary Session
Monday marked day one of TPC25, the Trillion Parameter Consortium’s all-hands conference and exhibition in San Jose, Calif. A group of over 130 participants gathered for a morning plenary ...Full Article
TPC25 Preview: Inside the Conference Shaping Frontier AI for Science
When the Trillion Parameter Consortium holds its 2025 all‑hands conference and exhibition, TPC25, in San Jose on July 28–31, computational scientists, system architects, policy leaders, and AI stakeholders from research, industry, ...Full Article
Anthropic Worth $100B? Riding the High-Stakes AI Money-go-round
This week could have been an episode of HBO’s "Silicon Valley" as billions of dollars flooded into AI firms almost overnight. The tone was set on Friday, when Nvidia ...Full Article
The Unlikely Reasonableness of AI-Augmented HPC
Editor’s note: This article from my colleague Doug Eadline at HPCwire explains how HPC researchers are pairing established simulation codes with large AI models to slash runtimes and widen ...Full Article
Robot Surgeon Executes Key Phase of Surgery Without Human Assistance
By now, you've probably heard of robotic surgery, where a surgeon sits at a console and guides long-armed instruments that enter the body through tiny pre-made incisions. The surgeon's ...Full Article
TACC’s Supercomputers Power AI-driven Research Uncovering Rapid Genomic Shifts in Human Evolution
The mystery of how we became human still drives scientific inquiry, especially among researchers probing the ancient genetic shifts that gave rise to our complex brains, capacity for language, ...Full Article
Bipartisan ‘ASAP’ Plan Aims to Supercharge US Science with Data, Compute and AI
Lawmakers are giving fresh consideration to science funding thanks to a recent initiative, the American Science Acceleration Project, or ASAP. Unveiled by Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Mike Rounds ...Full Article
