Microsoft's new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance

Microsoft researchers have developed On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training method that permanently embeds ...
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Military Simulation, Modelling and Virtual Training Market Research Report 2026-2036: Multi-Domain Operations and Joint Readiness Requirements Are Forcing LVC Convergence at Scale

Dublin, Feb. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Military Simulation, Modelling and Virtual Training Market Report 2026-2036" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Overall world ...

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Improved short-term sea level change predictions achieved with better AI training

Sea level can temporarily change for a variety of reasons—atmospheric pressure shifts and water accumulation from wind and ...