In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...

Brain activity during speech follows a layered timing pattern that matches large language model steps, showing how meaning builds gradually.

In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in ...

Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency. The first addition is the text-only ...

Mark Stevenson has previously received funding from Google. The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new ...

Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token (like “the” or “it”), whereas larger words may be represented by ...

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o and other modern state-of-the-art generative models like Anthropic’s Claude, Google's PaLM and Meta's Llama have been dominating the AI field recently.

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller ...