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Open & Local AI Language Models: Part of a More Sustainable Future for Scientific Computing
Our perspectives on the value of open and local AI models in science
September 8, 2026
HMN 2026: why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI
Health Medicine Net's recent story on DSE's commentary in Nature and interview with Berkeley News.
September 2, 2026
Midland: US-China researchers propose UN Global Plastics Treaty reporting framework
A reshare of Packaging Insights' story on our recent Science publication that proposes a global reporting framework within the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty.
August 19, 2026
Packaging Insights: US-China researchers propose UN Global Plastics Treaty reporting framework
A feature on faculty co-director Doug McCauley's recent paper in Science regarding the United Nations' ongoing Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.
August 17, 2026
GeoJupyter Blog: Exploring Reproducibility in Geospatial GUIs Through Code Generation
Undergraduate intern Benny Szeghy describes the benefits of Map2Cell for enabling reproducibility in GUI-driven geospatial workflows.
August 14, 2026
The Daily Californianian: ‘The future of AI’ is away from data centers, UC Berkeley researchers argue
UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper interviews faculty co-director Fernando Pérez about our recent commentary in Nature.
August 14, 2026
Berkeley News: Why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI
UC Berkeley News spotlights our commentary today in Nature on the environmental and scientific benefits of open source AI models.
August 11, 2026
AI Can Move Beyond Data Centers
In a new commentary in Nature Schmidt DSE faculty & researchers posit that open source AI models, which tend to be far more energy efficient than their commercial counterparts and run for free, offer an outside-the-box approach to meeting demands for use.
August 11, 2026