A springtail-like jumping robot

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the boundaries of what small robots can do. The research glimpses a future where nimble microrobots can crawl through tiny spaces, skitter across dangerous ground, and …

MIA-Bench: Towards Better Instruction Following Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs

We introduce MIA-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their ability to strictly adhere to complex instructions. Our benchmark comprises a diverse set of 400 image-prompt pairs, each crafted to challenge the models’ compliance with layered instructions in generating accurate responses that satisfy specific requested patterns. Evaluation results from …

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Empowering the Warfighter: Palantir’s Partnership with Microsoft

Promoting Army readiness through seamless coordination between Palantir-powered Army Vantage platform and Microsoft Power BI Better Together As the Department of Defense (DoD) increasingly relies on software and data to drive mission readiness and operations, the need for cutting-edge, interoperable technology solutions has never been more critical. Data interoperability should be the cornerstone for informed decision-making …

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How IDIADA optimized its intelligent chatbot with Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Xavier Vizcaino, Diego Martín Montoro, and Jordi Sánchez Ferrer from Applus+ Idiada. In 2021, Applus+ IDIADA, a global partner to the automotive industry with over 30 years of experience supporting customers in product development activities through design, engineering, testing, and homologation services, established the Digital Solutions department. This strategic move …

Enhancing AlloyDB vector search with inline filtering and enterprise observability

Many specialized vector databases today require you to create complex pipelines and applications in order to get the data you need. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL offers Google Research’s, state-of-the-art vector search index, ScaNN, enabling you to optimize the end-to-end retrieval of the most fresh, relevant data with a single SQL statement. Today, we are introducing a …