International Conference on Machine Learning
ICML
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is one of the three premier academic conferences in artificial intelligence, alongside NeurIPS and ICLR, founded in 1980 . It serves as a key venue where the latest AI research is presented and peer-reviewed before the global research community.
The 2026 edition in Seoul drew an unusually concentrated presence of major industry players—OpenAI held its first standalone booth, Google DeepMind sent over a hundred attendees, and Chinese AI labs were well-represented . The conference has also become a fierce recruiting ground, with tech giants and quantitative trading firms like Jane Street and Citadel competing for talent . That same year, ICML's organizers took the aggressive step of embedding hidden prompts in submitted papers to catch reviewers using AI to write their evaluations; 506 reviewers were flagged, and 497 papers were rejected as a result . The conference's best paper awards in 2026 went to diffusion-model research, including work from Tsinghua's Huang Gao team on what they termed "The Flexibility Trap" in diffusion LLMs .
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Coverage
Four Days at ICML Seoul: Models Are Eating Everything Faster Than Anyone Can Find Their Footing | Xing Meng, 5Y Capital
In July 2026, Xing Meng, partner at 5Y Capital, traveled to Seoul for ICML, where he engaged in deep conversations with researchers and founders on the front lines of the global AI industry. This article presents a selection of his firsthand observations after returning to China.
Opening the "Black Box," Building In-House Models, and a Chat About AI Entrepreneurship and Creation | 5Y Pub Vol. 22 with Yuan Xingyuan of ColorfulClouds Technology
How can we get AI to create works on par with *The Three-Body Problem*?
BioGeometry Closes Angel Round, Next-Generation AI to Power Macromolecular Drug R&D
Released TorchProtein, the first open-source machine learning platform for macromolecular drug discovery.
Lightelligence's Yichen Shen in Conversation with FreeS Fund's Li Feng: The Present and Future of Chip Industry's World-Class Challenges | 424 Livestream Registration
Let's Talk About That Chip
From 3D in Life, to Life in 3D: Erasing the Boundary Between Reality and the Virtual | 5Y View
What makes 3D so captivating?
The Collision of AI and Pharmaceuticals: Galaxy Pharma Tech Raises Nearly $10 Million in Funding | Light Moments
Galixir announced the completion of a nearly $10 million Pre-A funding round. The round was co-led by Source Code Capital and DCM, with 5Y Capital participating as a follow-on investor. Gaorong Capital, the lead investor in the company's angel round, continued to increase its stake.
