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IBM Research

The research division of IBM, with labs on several continents, publishing across AI, quantum computing, semiconductors and systems software.

Current stories

scienceOne report1 publisher

coinclp brings warm-start simplex solving back to R, four years after clpAPI vanished from CRAN

A from-scratch binding to COIN-OR's Clp reached CRAN on 15 September 2026, bringing back the re-solve-from-a-saved-basis loop that R lost when clpAPI was archived, on a solver its own author says is no longer the fastest.

Publishers:r-bloggers.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption18
Hype gap−10
Incentives45
Confidence62
buildOne report1 publisher

Running every AppWorld task five times drops a ReAct agent from 77% to 53%

IBM Research calls the 24-point drop between passing once and passing five times the consistency gap. Independence would have predicted a 27% five-run rate, so the failures are clustering on particular tasks.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives45
Confidence48
investOne report1 publisher

Agentrys raises $24.5m to layer chip-design agents over the EDA tools customers already license

MediaTek led the earlier $5.4m and Etna Labs the $19.1m seed, and the pitch competes for a chip team's engineering-hours budget rather than its tool budget, on a benchmark that still leaves about one answer in ten wrong.

Publishers:ventureburn.com

Reality

Evidence27
Adoption18
Hype gap+42
Incentives78
Confidence34
buildOne report1 publisher

Agent memory has a dose-response curve, and the cheapest dose won the biggest gain

IBM Research ran self-mined guidelines across eight models on AppWorld. One model gained 16.1 points for 5 percent more tokens; another gained nothing at all.

Publishers:huggingface.co

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence45