More than half of the world's population speaks more than one language-but there is no consistent method for defining "bilingual" or "multilingual." This makes it difficult to accurately assess ...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Israel-based Wonderful Ltd., a startup that builds enterprise-ready artificial intelligence agents, today announced it has raised $100 million in an early-stage funding round led by Index Ventures.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

In the lunch room at Academy of World Languages, a PreK–8 CPS multilanguage school, a cluster of fourth grade girls sit around a table. One speaks English and Arabic, one speaks Spanish, and one ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Jefferson County Public Schools is facing a major increase in students with disabilities and students whose first language isn’t English — and the district says meeting those ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...

Forty-four percent of New York City public school students speak a language at home other than English, with 156 different languages spoken across the nation’s largest school system. Serving those ...