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  • This is great progress in fundamental research and I’m thrilled to see Mistral leading it.

    Makes perfect sense and I’m glad that CERN is focusing on EU providers

    by AndrewKemendo
  • I'm not at all anti-AI, but I'm still holding my breath to see real scientific contributions coming from modern (LLM/CoT/agent) AI. Much of the premise behind "AI will make superabundance a reality" hinges on getting AI-driven science that affects everyday lives Anthropic's quasi-CRISPR-like discovery did not seem super compelling, and that is still the best I have seen. If anyone has more heartening stories that could convince me to be an optimist, please do share ;)
    by zetazzed
  • Wonderful news to not see the duopoly accelerating real science.
    by chews
  • > At the heart of this work is the ambition to develop a single pretrained Large Physics Model – the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on billions of simulated proton-proton collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, and designed to support multiple tasks, from reconstructing particle collisions and identifying particles to flagging unexpected signals and evaluating future detector designs.

    Does that mean this is not actually a "large language model" since it would be trained on experiment data and not text?

    by zzzeek
  • Great news, let them cook.
    by trilogic
  • I hope European university networks and their underfunded labs will join forces as soon as possible with other European national research centers.
    by havaianaslife
  • Man, when I was doing my PhD at CERN the most far out thing that we were generally allowed to use was boosted decision trees :) getting anything other than that approved for any Higgs-related analysis was… not a thing.
    by timbaboon
  • Finally! As a SWE, I was getting worried scientists would be left out of the increasingly-worried-about-getting-replaced club that SWEs and mathematicians are currently enjoying being members of.
    by Revanche1367

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