Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...
TechCrunch

‘Visual’ AI models might not see anything at all

The latest round of language models, like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro, are touted as “multimodal,” able to understand images and audio as well as text. But a new study makes clear that they don’t really ...
Ars Technica

Can you do better than top-level AI models on these basic vision tests?

Crucially, these tests are generated by custom code and don’t rely on pre-existing images or tests that could be found on the public Internet, thereby “minimiz[ing] the chance that VLMs can solve by ...
TechSpot

Study shows the best visual learning models fail at very basic visual identification tests

Bottom line: Recent advancements in AI systems have significantly improved their ability to recognize and analyze complex images. However, a new paper reveals that many state-of-the-art visual ...
VentureBeat

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Ships Early December Copilot Updates Across Spaces, Visual Studio and Model Options

GitHub kicked off this month with a cluster of GitHub Copilot updates spanning the Copilot Spaces collaboration surface, the Visual Studio IDE experience, and the available model lineup in Copilot ...