Topic
Predictive Modeling
2 episodes
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How Open Models Are Driving AI Research
NVIDIA's open models, particularly Nemotron, Cosmos, and BioNeMo, are driving AI research by providing foundational tools for new studies, with 145 papers citing Nemotron at ICML 2026.
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Turning brain prediction models into testable explanations
Justy and Cody dig into Microsoft Research’s generative causal testing, a loop that turns brain-prediction models into short verbal hypotheses and then stress-tests them with synthetic stories in the scanner. They like the core move: prediction is only useful if it can be converted into something testable, but they also poke at where the method is strongest, where it may be riding on model quality, and how much the new “micro-region” claims should be trusted yet.