Sony AI 2025, Year in Review
As the year comes to close, we’re reflecting not only on key research milestones, but on the scale of work achieved across our global teams. In 2025,...
Protecting Creator’s Rights in the Age of AI
The rise of artificial intelligence technologies that can generate songs and mimic musical styles and artists has led to a surge in AI music content...
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Advancing AI: Highlights from November
November was a pivotal chapter for Sony AI, marked by the debut of our ethics project FHIBE, a consent-driven benchmark years in the making, and a...
NeurIPS 2025: Sony AI’s Latest ContributionsImaging & Sensing (PPML)AI for Creators
NeurIPS 2025 brings together work across Sony AI that targets real problems in real settings. The research in this roundup focuses on models that...
The FHIBE Team: Data, Dignity, and the People Who Made It Possible
AI runs on data, but too often, that data has been scraped without consent, assembled without care, and used without accountability. The consequences...
Introducing FHIBE: A Consent-Driven Benchmark for AI Fairness Evaluation
Why Fairness Needs a Better Approach Building AI that works fairly across people, places, and contexts globally requires data that represents real...
What If Fairness Started at the Dataset Level?
At Sony AI, we believe ethical AI starts with the inputs. And that means reexamining how datasets are collected and shared. Our research has...
Advancing AI: Highlights from October
October marked another milestone month for Sony AI, showcasing impactful work across computer vision, generative modeling, and human–AI perception....
Sights on AI: Expanding Human Perception Through AI – A Conversation with Daisuke Iso
Daisuke Iso is a Staff Research Scientist at Sony AI and a senior leader within the Imaging and Sensing Flagship Project. With more than a decade of...
New Research at ICCV 2025: Expanding the Boundaries of Vision and Generative AI
At ICCV 2025, Sony AI is presenting six new research contributions that advance both generative modeling and computer vision. From...
Advancing AI: Highlights from September
At Sony AI, each month is a chance to share how our research, collaborations, and stories are shaping the field of artificial intelligence. September...
From Editing to Mastering: AI Research Insights at ISMIR 2025
At ISMIR 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea, Sony AI and its collaborators presented four new research projects that explore how AI can support music...
Advancing Analog Design with AI: Sony AI’s Contributions at MLCAD 2025
Analog circuit design has long resisted the kind of automation that has transformed digital design. They may be small, yet mighty, but they are...
Advancing AI: Highlights from August
August was a month of sound, circuits, and shared creativity. From new approaches in audio search to breakthroughs in analog design, Sony AI...
Sony AI’s Deep RL Team on Why the Hardest Problems Still Matter
From sentiment analysis to interactive robotics, AI tackles a range of challenges. While some tasks involve parsing patterns or generating outputs...
Behind the Sound: How AI Is Enhancing Audio Search
For sound designers, finding the right sound can be a challenge. Traditional methods rely on filenames and tags, which may not always accurately...
Advancing AI: Highlights from July
July was a month of cultural fluency, scientific collaboration, and stronger defenses for creators. From innovative translation models presented at...
New Research at ACL 2025 Tackles Real-World Translation Challenges
Introduction Languages are more than words. Language is tied to memory, culture, and identity. And nowhere is this more evident than in the...
Sony AI at ICML: Sharing New Approaches to Reinforcement Learning, Generative Modeling, and Defensible AIAI for CreatorsGame AI and Interactive AgentsPPML
From powering creative tools to improving decision-making in robotics and reinforcement learning, machine learning continues to redefine how...
Sights on AI: Lingjuan Lyu Discusses Her Career in Privacy-Preserving AI and Staying Inspired As The AI Landscape Has Advanced
The Sony AI team is a diverse group of individuals working to accomplish one common goal: accelerate the fundamental research and development of AI...
Scientific Discovery: How Sony AI Is Building Tools to Empower Scientists and Personalize Health at AI4X 2025
At this year’s AI4X 2025, Sony AI is presenting two research projects that show how intelligent systems can augment knowledge and creativity in...
Advancing AI: Highlights from June
June was a month of real-world progress across Sony AI. We brought new models to IJCNN, revisited SXSW’s human-robot creativity panel, celebrated...
SXSW Rewind: From GT Sophy to Social Robots—Highlights from Peter Stone and Cynthia Breazeal’s SXSW Conversation
While SXSW 2025 may now be in the rearview mirror, the conversations it ignited continue to resonate. On March 10, 2025, Peter Stone, Chief Scientist...
Research That Scales, Adapts, and Creates: Spotlighting Sony AI at CVPR 2025Conclusion
At this year’s IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) in Nashville, TN Sony AI is proud to present 12 accepted papers...
Advancing AI: Highlights from May
From research milestones to conference prep, May was a steady month of progress across Sony AI. Our team's advanced work in vision-based...
Advancing AI: Highlights from April
April marked a standout moment for Sony AI as we brought bold ideas to the world stage at ICLR 2025. This year’s conference spotlighted our work...
Sony AI at ICLR 2025: Refining Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning, and AI Personalization
This April, Sony AI will present a wide-ranging portfolio of research at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025). From...
Advancing AI: Highlights from March
March was a month of notable advancements, global discussions, and strategic collaborations, reinforcing our commitment to responsible AI innovation....
Unlocking the Future of Video-to-Audio Synthesis: Inside the MMAudio Model
In a world increasingly driven by multimedia content, AI researchers have long struggled to generate high-quality, synchronized audio from video....
Sony AI’s Contributions at AAAI 2025
As AI continues to advance, researchers are developing new methods to improve language translation and speech synthesis with greater accuracy and...
Sights on AI: Pete Wurman Discusses Career in AI and How the Technology is Evolving the Gaming Landscape
The Sony AI team is a diverse group of individuals working to accomplish one common goal: accelerate the fundamental research and development of AI...
Advancing AI: Highlights from January
At Sony AI, every month is an opportunity to innovate, connect, and share our progress with you. Welcome to Advancing AI, our brand-new monthly...
Sony AI Ethics Flagship: Reflecting on Our Progress and Purpose
Since Sony AI’s inception, ethics has been at the heart of everything we do. The establishment of our AI Ethics Research Flagship at the beginning of...