# Backpropagation Is No Longer Required for AI Training

- slug: backpropagation-is-no-longer-required-for-ai-training
- date: 2026-03-28
- category: Artificial Intelligence

A team at NVIDIA, the University of Oxford, and the Quebec AI Institute (MILA) has published what appears to be the most credible evidence yet that backpropagation — the algorithm that has powered nearly every major AI system since the 1980s — is not architecturally required for frontier-scale tr...

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