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Responsible AI User
Use AI productively while protecting privacy, checking outputs, and preserving human accountability.
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Evaluate workplace use cases, run safe pilots, measure value, and communicate changes responsibly.
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Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.
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Visual AI
Marigold Diffusion Depth Estimation
Marigold repurposes a pretrained image-generation diffusion model (Stable Diffusion) to predict highly detailed depth maps.
Visual AIImage Harmonization and Compositing
Image harmonization automatically adjusts a pasted foreground object so its color, lighting, and tone match the new background, making composites look real.
ApplicationsAI in Coral Reef Monitoring
AI analyzes underwater imagery, video, and sensor data to track coral health, bleaching, and biodiversity at a scale no human dive team could match.
ApplicationsAI in Bird Sound Identification
AI listens to audio recordings and identifies which bird species are calling, turning microphones into automated naturalists.
ApplicationsAI in Whale and Marine Mammal Acoustics
AI scans vast amounts of underwater audio to detect, classify, and track whales and other marine mammals by their calls.
Visual AISDXL and Cascaded Diffusion
SDXL is Stability AI's high-resolution text-to-image model that pairs a powerful base generator with a refiner, while cascaded diffusion chains multiple…
Visual AIGLIGEN Grounded Generation
GLIGEN (Grounded-Language-to-Image Generation) lets you control exactly where objects appear in a generated image by feeding the model bounding boxes…
Visual AIT2I-Adapter for Multi-Conditional Diffusion Control
Learn T2I-Adapter for multi-conditional diffusion control: how it steers Stable Diffusion with edges, depth, pose, and other conditions using a lightweight…
CompaniesRecursion Pharmaceuticals AI
Recursion Pharmaceuticals runs one of the world's largest automated biology labs, generating petabytes of cellular images to let machine learning models map…
CompaniesIsomorphic Labs Drug Discovery
Isomorphic Labs is the Alphabet/DeepMind spinout turning the AlphaFold breakthrough into an AI-first drug design engine.
CompaniesInsitro Machine Learning Biology
Insitro fuses large-scale human genetic and cellular data with machine learning to find better drug targets and the patients most likely to respond.
TechnicalSparse Autoencoders for Interpretability
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a tool that pulls apart the tangled internal activations of a neural network into a much larger set of cleaner…
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