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12 posts tagged research.
The Caribbean AI landscape in 2026
A map of Caribbean AI in 2026: regional policy, Trinidad's AI ministry and data centre plans, Jamaica's AI lab, Future Caribbean and the startups to know.
Paper digest: video diffusion and world models
How AI video went from still images to Sora and to Open-Sora, trained for about US$200,000. What 'world simulator' means and how to judge tools.
Paper digest: RAG for cultural LLMs
Retrieval-augmented generation lets AI look up facts in your documents before answering. What the key papers found, and why it matters for Caribbean AI.
Paper digest: how AI learns what people prefer
Chatbots are trained to give answers people prefer, using methods called RLHF and DPO. How they work, what three key papers found and what 'aligned' means.
Paper digest: Omni-Diffusion
Omni-Diffusion is one AI model that can listen, speak, read images and draw, built on a newer design. What it does, how well it works and why it could matter.
Paper digest: Mixture-of-Experts
Mixture-of-Experts lets AI models grow much larger without costing much more to run. How it works, from Google's early papers to Mistral's Mixtral.
Paper digest: LaViDa-R1
Adobe researchers trained one AI model to reason about images, solve maths and edit pictures. What LaViDa-R1 does differently and where it falls short.
Paper digest: FlashAttention
FlashAttention made AI models faster and able to read longer text without changing their answers. How it works, and why it affects what AI costs you.
Paper digest: Creole and low-resource NLP
AI language tools are built mostly on English text. What research on Jamaican Patois and other Creoles shows, and what local AI teams need next.
Paper digest: speech AI and Caribbean voices
Whisper transcribes standard English well, but gets most Jamaican Patois words wrong. What three papers show, and how to test speech tools yourself.
Caribbean ad spend in 2026: what we know
One widely shared study says the Caribbean spends US$1.2 billion a year on ads, 38% of it digital. Here is what holds up, what doesn't and how to plan.
Attention Is All You Need, in plain English
The 2017 Google paper that introduced the Transformer, the design behind ChatGPT and most AI tools today. What it showed, how it works and its limits.