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UC Berkeley is a research institution contributing to multiple areas of AI development and evaluation. Recent work includes developing ConlangCrafter for constructed language generation, co-creating diagnostic frameworks for enterprise AI agent failures with IBM, partnering with Google DeepMind on mathematical discovery tools, releasing the LiveCodeBench leaderboard for code generation evaluation, and collaborating on AI safety research identifying concrete problems in ML systems.

Updated 3 August 2026

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Jun 2016 → Jul 2026

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Latest developments

Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web Latent Space · 4 days ago · 42

Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Cyber: An Orchestration Model Reporting 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM MarkTechPost · 1 week ago · 22

ConlangCrafter Turns AI to Imagining Languages IEEE Spectrum AI · 1 month ago · 19

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST Hugging Face Blog · 5 months ago · 41

Accelerating discovery with the AI for Math Initiative Google DeepMind · 9 months ago · 46

Introducing the LiveCodeBench Leaderboard - Holistic and Contamination-Free Evaluation of Code LLMs Hugging Face Blog · 2 years ago · 22

Concrete AI safety problems OpenAI Blog · 10 years ago · 30

Timeline

Month Quarter Year

Q3 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, matching Fable 5 capabilities at half the price Model release

Q2 2026

27 Jun ConlangCrafter Turns AI to Imagining Languages

Q1 2026

18 Feb IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

Q4 2025

Google DeepMind launches AI for Math Initiative with research partnerships and achieves gold-medal IMO performance Product launch

29 Oct Accelerating discovery with the AI for Math Initiative

Q2 2024

16 Apr Introducing the LiveCodeBench Leaderboard - Holistic and Contamination-Free Evaluation of Code LLMs

Q2 2016

21 Jun Concrete AI safety problems

Relationships

Products & technology

Develops ConlangCrafter · 1 source

People

Frank Coyle employed by this company · 1 source
Gašper Beguš employed by this company · 1 source

Partnerships

Google DeepMind partnered with this company · 1 source

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