Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company ...

Sign languages, like oral speech, vary enormously around the world but experts know little about how the various dialects evolved. Now a new study of 40 current sign languages and 36 historical ...

The book, Language Unlimited, draws on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, to discover the hidden structure behind all we say and understand, explores the many mysteries about our ...

Learning a foreign language is more than just a boost to your CV or handy for travelling. It will make you smarter, more decisive and even better at English, says Anne Merritt. Physiological studies ...