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🎙️ The latest episode of Let’s Talk Research is now live! Kicking off 2026 by reflecting on our year of research and what's next for the team with InstaDeep’s Head of Research and Development, @AlexLaterre. 🧵⬇️

We're extremely proud to share Daniel's achievement as part of our first oral presentation at @NeurIPSConf, representing an opportunity for AI researchers in Madagascar and across Africa to push new boundaries on the world stage. 🗺️

From Africa to the world! We’re so proud of Daniel Rajaonarivelomanantsoa, a PhD student from Madagascar and a scholar at the Google-funded AI for Science program at @AIMS_Next. His paper, co-authored alongside his peers at @instadeepai, was selected for an oral presentation at NeurIPS, placing it among the top 0.3% of over 21,000 submissions worldwide and making him the first Africa-based researcher to achieve this milestone! 📷 Daniel and his team identified ways to make AI perform up to 126% better. Read all about it in this @ITNewsAfrica article: itnewsafrica.com/2025/12/madaga…

🧩 Proud to share that our research introducing MEMENTO, a memory-enhanced framework for neural combinatorial optimisation, has been selected as a Spotlight paper at @NeurIPSConf 2025! 🎉 👇 Hear from lead author, @ChalumeauFelix in the video below.

In the lead-up to @NeurIPSConf 2025, we’re answering your top questions about our research. Hear from Daniel Rajaonarivonivelomanantsoa as he explains how inference-time search enables stronger performance over zero-shot approaches 👇

🚀 Proud to share that our research showing how inference-time strategies can break the reinforcement learning performance ceiling has been selected for an oral presentation at @NeurIPSConf 2025! 🎉 👇 Hear from lead authors @ChalumeauFelix and @ruanjohn in the ▶️ below. 🧵⬇️

Ahead of NeurIPS 2025, we’re answering your top questions on Oryx, InstaDeep’s new algorithm for offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). 📚 Hear from lead author Claude Formanek about how Oryx selects actions 🤔

We’re excited to share that the updated InstaGeo framework is now live on GitHub! 🌍 An end-to-end, open-source framework that takes you from raw satellite data to operational deployment in just one working day. ⏱️ 🧵👇

Thrilled to announce that Oryx, our best-in-class algorithm for offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), has been accepted at @NeurIPSConf 2025! 🎉 Hear directly from lead author @MahjoubOmayma👇

We are heading to @NeurIPSConf 2025! 🎉 Our Africa-based Reinforcement Learning team are making headlines with: 3️⃣ Accepted papers ✨ 1 Spotlight (top 3%) 🎤 And our first-ever Oral presentation at NeurIPS (top 0.3%)! 🧵⬇️

At this year’s AI Day, we came together with our colleagues from @BioNTech_Group to showcase how we are advancing the frontier of Bio AI, with a look ahead at what the future has to hold in our rapidly accelerating field 🌠 Learn the highlights below: 🧵⬇️

The poster session at #DLI2025 reflects the Indaba’s mission: building AI in Africa, Urunana (hand in hand). Researchers from early-career to experienced experts shared work spanning healthcare, African language processing, and environmental and agricultural applications, all with a strong focus on African contexts. It was an invaluable space for feedback, mentorship, and collaboration, helping presenters refine their methodologies and strengthen the impact of their research. Explore the posters here: deeplearningindaba.com/2025/posters/ #DLI2025 #Indaba2025 #Urunana

🚀 We’re excited to unveil the first lineup of technical tutorials and practicals at #DLI2025! These sessions go beyond training—they reflect our mission of building AI in Africa, “Urunana” (hand in hand). Attendees will gain hands-on experience, exploring advanced topics: Pracicals: ✨ Machine Learning Foundations ✨ Generative Models & LLMs for African languages Tutorials: ✨ Mathematics of Deep Learning ✨ Introduction to Deep Generative Models 📌 All tutorial content will also be available online after the Indaba. Don’t miss out—subscribe here 👉 lnkd.in/eCgXRqsV

ChatNT has been featured on the front cover of @NatMachIntell! This exciting opportunity allows us to share our proof-of-concept for a generalist genomics AI with a wider community of scientists and researchers around the world. 🎊

📆 Six months, four publications, one cover. We’re halfway through the year and InstaDeep research is powering ahead with multiple boundary-pushing papers published in the @NaturePortfolio! Catch up on the highlights below 🔽

We’ve talked routing—now let’s dive into placement! Discover how DeepPCB Placement elevates your PCB design process 🚀 Real-world use-cases showing why placement + routing = winning combo🏅 👉 bit.ly/4jxGwyL

👩‍💻Hear from the women making history in AI today. On #WomensHistoryMonth, join women from the InstaDeep team around the world as they share how they're building, coding, researching and connecting to create a better, fairer world through AI innovation.

Quick technical outline for anyone interested in DeepPCB 🚀 (but we’re not revealing too much 👀) deeppcb.ai/2025/03/25/bri…

Proteins power life, but their complexity makes them hard to understand or design. We’re introducing ProtBFN, a 650M parameter Bayesian Flow Networks capable of generating natural, diverse and novel protein sequences. Here's Tom Barrett (@tomdbarrett), Staff Scientist at InstaDeep, to tell you more:

🎊 We’re proud that #InstaGeo has been selected by the @ParisPeaceForum as one of just 50 projects from 770 submissions across 111 countries for the #AIActionSummit 🇫🇷 InstaGeo uses AI and geospatial data to tackle global challenges. From monitoring desert locust swarms to creating scalable solutions for crises, we’re excited to showcase how #AIForGood is making an impact 🛰️. Learn more: lnkd.in/dc9gp4fc