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Version 15 Launches AI‑Enabled Wolfram Language with New Notebook Assistant

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Wolfram's latest drop, Version 15, lands after nearly four decades of incremental growth. The release bundles fresh core functions with a new AI‑powered layer that lets notebooks call language functions and converse with large‑language models. The update underscores the company’s long‑term push to merge symbolic computation with modern machine learning for developers and researchers worldwide.

Under the hood, the language now exposes over 7,000 primitives that span mathematics, data science, and symbolic logic, all wrapped in a unified syntax. The new AI Assistant can generate full code snippets, debug expressions, and even explain results in plain English, turning a notebook into an interactive programming tutor for developers and researchers worldwide.

Wolfram has long championed the idea that a computational language should be readable by both humans and machines. By embedding AI directly into the notebook interface, the firm removes the gap between natural language queries and precise symbolic execution. The result is a single environment where code, data, and insight flow seamlessly for developers and researchers.

The rollout also ships a Foundation Tool suite that links external APIs and hardware to the language’s logic layer, making it easier to prototype robotics, IoT, and data pipelines. With AI now natively embedded, developers can prototype faster, debug automatically, and verify mathematical guarantees before deploying to production for developers and researchers worldwide.