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Tech Xplore / Scalable transformer accelerator enables on-device execution of large language models

Large language models (LLMs) like BERT and GPT are driving major advances in artificial intelligence, but their size and complexity typically require powerful servers and cloud infrastructure. Running these models directly ...

Jul 21, 2025 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / AI models learn to split up tasks, slashing wait times for complex prompts

As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT continue to advance, user expectations of them keep growing, including with respect to how quickly they can respond to our increasingly intricate prompts requesting answers to ...

Jul 21, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Co-intercalation process enables fast-charging sodium batteries

Li-ion and Na-ion batteries operate through a process called intercalation, where ions are stored and exchanged between two chemically different electrodes. In contrast, co-intercalation, a process in which both ions and ...

Jul 21, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Probing AI 'thoughts' reveals models use tree-like math to track shifting information

Let's say you're reading a story, or playing a game of chess. You may not have noticed, but each step of the way, your mind kept track of how the situation (or "state of the world") was changing. You can imagine this as a ...

Jul 21, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Dialog / Democratizing AI-powered sentiment analysis

Artificial intelligence is accelerating at breakneck speed, with larger models dominating the scene—more parameters, more data, more power. But here is the real question: Do we really need bigger to be better? We challenged ...

Jul 21, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Japan sees bright future for ultra-thin, flexible solar panels

Japan is heavily investing in a new kind of ultra-thin, flexible solar panel that it hopes will help it meet renewable energy goals while challenging China's dominance of the sector.

Jul 20, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Conversations between LLMs could automate the creation of exploits, study shows

As computers and software become increasingly sophisticated, hackers need to rapidly adapt to the latest developments and devise new strategies to plan and execute cyberattacks. One common strategy to maliciously infiltrate ...

Jul 19, 2025 in Security
Tech Xplore / New perovskite-silicon solar cell pushes the limits of efficiency

Commercial silicon-based solar cells have made significant improvements in efficiency over the past decade, increasing from around 15% efficiency in 2015 to just shy of 25% in 2025.

Jul 18, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Researchers unveil efficient, eco-friendly method for recycling lithium-ion batteries

In a major step forward for sustainable energy technology, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), led by Professor Yan Wang, William B. Smith Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, have developed ...

Jul 18, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Model predicts long-term effects of nuclear waste on underground disposal systems

As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose of nuclear waste remain as politically fraught as ever. The United States, for instance, has indefinitely ...

Jul 18, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Tech giants warn window to monitor AI reasoning is closing, urge action

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Dexterous robotic hand integrates thermal, inertial and force sensors

While roboticists have introduced increasingly advanced systems over the past decades, most existing robots are not yet able to manipulate objects with the same dexterity and sensing ability as humans. This, in turn, adversely ...

Jul 17, 2025 in Robotics