A supportive ecosystem is a cornerstone in entrepreneurship, according to Georgina Campbell Flatter, the CEO of Greentown Labs. 'If we really want to be driving the most transformational technologies to scale at a speed in which we need them to happen for our planet, we need to be thinking about the ecosystem that we build around it.' During a seminar titled MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition, Campbell Flatter spoke of 'the power of 'and'' ' the importance of multiple people, companies, and solutions collaborating to advance energy and climate solutions ' and how that underpins Greentown Labs' mission. 'Innovation is a team sport. No one can go alone,' she said. Creating these ecosystems is paramount at Greentown Labs, the world's largest energy and climate incubator. 'Through the lens of Greentown, we think about the power of 'and' through how we can work together better in the ecosystems where we have physical presence, but also how we can connect better across ecosystems,' said Campbell Flatter. The concept of "and" also exists in energy and climate, innovation and deployment, science and entrepreneurship, and competitiveness and collaboration, she said. Campbell Flatter feels this expansive lens is especially important in our increasingly polarized world....

U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT's graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, released today. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs. Among individual engineering disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering (tied with the University of California at Berkeley), electrical/electronic/communications engineering (tied with Stanford University and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering. It placed second in nuclear engineering. In the rankings of individual MBA specialties, MIT placed first in four areas: business analytics, entrepreneurship (with Stanford), production/operations, and supply chain/logistics. It placed second in executive MBA programs (with the University of Chicago). U.S. News bases its rankings of graduate schools of engineering and business on two types of data: reputational surveys of deans and other academic officials, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students. The magazine's less-frequent rankings of graduate programs in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities are based solely on reputational surveys....

It was an easy choice for me. I'm not a pure academic person. I've done entrepreneurship before, worked at large tech firms, and hold CFA and PMP certifications. I love challenges. When I joined Z.ai, I saw fascinating challenges that I had a chance to conquer: product development, partnership building, commercialization, and establishing a global brand. The opportunity to build something from the ground up on a global scale was too compelling to pass up. The original hypothesis behind GLM was that the dichotomy between autoencoding (BERT-style) and autoregressive (GPT-style) models was a false choice. We believed a unified framework could capture the best of both worlds: strong bidirectional understanding and powerful generation capabilities. Back then, the landscape was fragmented. You had to choose between models good at understanding versus models good at generation. GLM's autoregressive blank infilling objective was designed to bridge that gap. This DNA still influences our models today. We continue to prioritize versatility and multi-task capability rather than optimizing for a single benchmark or use case....

With the impact artificial intelligence is having on how companies operate, the environment for how MIT students are learning entrepreneurship and choosing to create new ventures is seeing rapid changes as well. To address how these student startups are being built, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship undertook a months-long series of discussions with key stakeholders to help shape a new direction for delta v, MIT's capstone entrepreneurship accelerator for student founders. Two of Boston's most successful tech entrepreneurs have stepped forward to fund this growth of new MIT ventures through a combined $6 million gift that supports the delta v accelerator run out of the Trust Center. Ed Hallen MBA '12 and Andrew Bialecki, co-founders of Boston-based customer relationship management firm Klaviyo, are providing the donation to support the next wave of innovation-driven entrepreneurship taking place at MIT. 'In the early days of Klaviyo, we learned almost everything by building, testing assumptions, making mistakes, and figuring things out as we went,' Hallen says. 'MIT delta v creates that same learning-by-doing environment for students, while surrounding them with mentorship and resources that help founders build with clarity and momentum. We've seen the difference delta v can make for founders, and we're excited to help the Trust Center extend that opportunity to the next generation of students.'...