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    Recent news from the MIT Quest for Intelligence (June 2025)

    After final exams are submitted and Commencement crowds have dispersed, MIT takes a collective deep breath, admires the accomplishments of its outstanding community, and begins planning for the academic year ahead. At the Quest for Intelligence, we are looking back and celebrating the remarkable Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, cheering on our Engineering Team for their hard work building new tools in collaboration with Children Helping Science, and waving goodbye to our incredible UROPs. 

    Here’s what’s new at the Quest.
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    Quest UROPs 2024-2025

    This year's UROPs performed research with the Language and Embodied Intelligence Missions as well as the Brain-Score platform.
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    Recent news from the MIT Quest for Intelligence

    In spring, the green grass and blue skies bring new energy to all our endeavors — and at the Quest, the past few months have seen remarkable activity in all our Missions and Platforms.

    We’re excited to share a few updates with you — and we hope to engage in person, whether in Cambridge or elsewhere.
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    Intelligence Observatory

    The Intelligence Observatory will build modern, scalable frameworks to plan, execute, and disseminate large, high-precision surveys of natural cognition in varied environments — both virtual and physical.
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    Training Machines to See in 3D

    Humans understand the shape of objects just by looking at them, but machine learning models don't have the same spatial reasoning capabilities. Quest researchers ask why.