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Vector's AI Engineering team audited the routing structure of a 35-billion-parameter multimodal model across all 48 layers. In the first half, routing is driven by signal type, audio, video and text each follow their own stable pathways. In the second half, it shifts to meaning.

An AI system ran the full research pipeline – formed a hypothesis, wrote and debugged its own experimental code, produced the manuscript – and passed blind peer review. Published in Nature & co-authored by Vector Faculty Member Jeff Clune: 🧵

[1/4] 🇰🇷 Excited to present our new paper “Frequentist Consistency of Prior-Data Fitted Networks for Causal Inference” at ICML 2026 in Seoul. The paper asks a simple question: when PFNs are used for causal inference, do their uncertainty estimates actually agree with classical frequentist inference?

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Big progress in autonomous AI systems can come from an unexpected place: foundational ideas hiding in plain sight Dillon was a Research Intern working on long-horizon planning and sequential decision making – research that connects directly to efficiency, safety, and reliability in AI autonomy

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What does a computer science researcher gain from a founder in molecular biology? For Vector Research Intern Shuting Xie, an IMPACT mentorship turned into a long-term collaboration. His mentor's domain knowledge in biology now grounds his ongoing research in real-world context.

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We are pleased to announce two new open-source extensions to the Inspect framework for AI evaluation: MLflow and Podman extensions 🔧 These tools make it easier to assess how AI systems perform in practice.

Work alongside Vector Faculty Members on AI research that matters. Vector's Research Internships are now open for Fall 2026 and Winter 2027 – offering: 🔬 Hands-on research in computer vision, NLP, computational biology, robotics, and more 🌟 IMPACT Mentorship Program opportunity [1/2]

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