Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a new genomic language AI model, called GPN-Star, that far outpaces its competitors at identifying the most important genetic variants that contribute to inherited traits, including those that lead to disease. It is also far more computationally efficient than larger models, requiring only a fraction of the time and computing resources to train.
UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed six new faculty in statistics and in electrical engineering and computer sciences to its community this year.
Before UC Berkeley classes got underway last week, several events welcoming students to campus were held at the recently opened Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway. At an open house on Aug. 25 – the day before fall classes started – the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed the UC Berkeley community and neighbors to the Gateway as they explored the building’s new...
UC Berkeley will offer a Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – a new graduate professional degree program for STEM graduates – starting in fall 2027, with applications opening Sept. 24, 2026. The Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (MAIML) is a full-time degree program taken over two semesters in person at the Berkeley campus.
More than a week before the fall semester at UC Berkeley officially began, 53 eager transfer students arrived on campus Aug. 9 to participate in a new program hosted by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). The five-day Transfer Launch program aimed to provide CDSS transfer students a jumpstart in preparing for their courses and finding a lasting community at Berkeley.
Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in response to user prompts, and rely on their own predictive models to generate text. That’s why they can be so good at some tasks, such as simulating human writing, and surprisingly bad at others...
Amid growing concerns about AI energy and resource use, three scientists from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (Schmidt DSE) at UC Berkeley and the University of Colorado, Boulder propose a practical solution to reduce reliance on data centers. In a commentary published by Nature on Aug. 11, the scientists posit that open source AI models, which tend to be...
When UC Berkeley postdoctoral researchers Maya Zomer and Lucia Layritz first drove through burned portions of Mojave National Preserve in Southern California, the sight stunned them. “It looks like a pretty dystopian landscape,” Layritz said. More than a million Joshua trees had burned when the 43,000-acre Dome Fire tore through in 2020, with many plants blackening in the flames.
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery in everything from disease prevention, to early-detection and new therapeutics in healthcare.
Marking a breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has unlocked a new way to power nanoscale light-generating devices with electricity while preserving the delicate optical properties needed for efficient operation.
