A Caltech Lab at PrismML Just Fit an 8 Billion Parameter AI Model Into 1.15 GB. Announcing a Breakthrough in AI Compression: 1-Bit LLMs

If Caltech is hiring presidents for the long run, most colleges and universities should be hiring for the longer run.

The California Institute of Technology has received a $50 million commitment from Caltech trustees Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa for its highly regarded aerospace department.

Even astronauts do grunt work, including routine maintenance and organizing cargo. It’s a waste of precious space time and taxpayer money—it costs about $130,000 an hour to keep astronauts in orbit. Ethan Barajas’ Icarus Robotics aims to delegate the tedious tasks to robots. Cofounded in 2024 with Jamie Palmer, the New York–based startup is building AI-powered robots to handle the mundane so the highly trained humans “can focus on the groundbreaking discoveries that only astronauts can do,” he says. Barajas interned at NASA at 17 and dropped out of Caltech after three years to build Icarus, which has raised $6.1 million in seed funding. The company is planning a test run of its robots aboard a zero-gravity flight to prepare for a yearlong test onboard the International Space Station in 2027.

While 11 schools, including Princeton, MIT, Yale and Harvard. were hit with a higher tax on their endowments, Congress exempted wealthy small schools, including Swarthmore, Amherst, Hillsdale and CalTech, from the levy.

One of the most surprising PST Art and Science Collide exhibits was not at a museum or gallery, it was Cal Tech’s, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech 1920-2020

By luring tech companies to Atlanta while simultaneously growing its enrollment, the Georgia Institute Of Technology is creating a super-sized rival to MIT, Caltech and Stanford and fueling Silicon Valley South.

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech has named the 2024 Ross Brown Investigators. Each awardee will receive $2 million in research support over five years.

Caltech will use a $100 million gift from the Brinson Foundation for a new Exploration Hub focused on novel scientific & engineering topics, including space exploration.

Led by Steve Oldham, Captura is focused on commercializing Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) technology developed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Caltech receives one of the largest gifts in its history - $400 million from Ross M. Brown. Caltech will use the gift to establish the Brown Institute for Basic Science.

Forbes partnered with research firm Statista to survey workers at U.S. companies and institutions with 1,000 to 5,000 employees. The final list ranks the 500 companies with the most recommendations. Caltech was one of many universities high on the list.

For only the second time in history, a Caltech-led team of radio astronomers has detected a pair of supermassive black holes likely in the process of merging.

Charlie Munger is an amazing investor and Warren Buffett’s partner at Berkshire Hathaway. He recently gave an interview to CalTech alumni that has a lot to teach us about investing.

Can researchers from MIT and Caltech use quantum entanglement to take down the house?

Caltech senior Ari Rosner has developed an interactive tool that helps schools configure students in a classroom while observing social-distancing guidelines. His idea came after observing his school administrator mother struggle with that task, measuring classroom blueprints with a ruler.