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deepseek-r1-0528 o3 gemini-2.5-pro claude-opus-4 deepseek_ai openai gemini meta-ai-fair anthropic x-ai ollama hugging-face alibaba bytedance xiaomi reasoning reinforcement-learning benchmarking quantization local-inference model-evaluation open-weights transparency post-training agentic-benchmarks long-context hallucination-detection teortaxestex wenfeng danielhanchen awnihannun reach_vb abacaj
DeepSeek R1-0528 release brings major improvements in reasoning, hallucination reduction, JSON output, and function calling, matching or surpassing closed models like OpenAI o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks such as Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, LiveBench, and GPQA Diamond. The model ranks #2 globally in open weights intelligence, surpassing Meta AI, Anthropic, and xAI. Open weights and technical transparency have fueled rapid adoption across platforms like Ollama and Hugging Face. Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Xiaomi now match or surpass US labs in model releases and intelligence, driven by open weights strategies. Reinforcement learning post-training is critical for intelligence gains, mirroring trends seen at OpenAI. Optimized quantization techniques (1-bit, 4-bit) and local inference enable efficient experimentation on consumer hardware. New benchmarks like LisanBench test knowledge, planning, memory, and long-context reasoning, with OpenAI o3 and Claude Opus 4 leading. Discussions highlight concerns about benchmark contamination and overemphasis on RL-tuned gains.
DeepSeek-R1-0528 - Gemini 2.5 Pro-level model, SOTA Open Weights release
deepseek-r1-0528 gemini-2.5-pro qwen-3-8b qwen-3-235b deepseek-ai anthropic meta-ai-fair nvidia alibaba google-deepmind reinforcement-learning benchmarking model-performance open-weights reasoning quantization post-training model-comparison artificialanlys scaling01 cline reach_vb zizhpan andrewyng teortaxestex teknim1 lateinteraction abacaj cognitivecompai awnihannun
DeepSeek R1-0528 marks a significant upgrade, closing the gap with proprietary models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and surpassing benchmarks from Anthropic, Meta, NVIDIA, and Alibaba. This Chinese open-weights model leads in several AI benchmarks, driven by reinforcement learning post-training rather than architecture changes, and demonstrates increased reasoning token usage (23K tokens per question). The China-US AI race intensifies as Chinese labs accelerate innovation through transparency and open research culture. Key benchmarks include AIME 2024, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA Diamond.
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OpenAI announced the new GPT-4o model with enhanced instruction-following, complex problem-solving, and native image generation capabilities. The model shows improved performance in math, coding, and creativity, with features like transparent background image generation. Discussions around content filtering and policy for image generation emphasize balancing creative freedom and harm prevention. DeepSeek V3-0324 APIs, available on Hugging Face and powered by SambaNovaAI, outperform benchmarks and models like Gemini 2.0 Pro and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Gemini 2.5 Pro is recommended for coding, and Gemini 3 can be deployed easily on Google Cloud Vertex AI via the new Model Garden SDK. The Gemma 3 Technical Report has been released on arXiv.
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gemini-2.0-flash imagen-3 mistral-small-3.1 mistral-3 gpt-4o-mini claude-3.5-haiku olm0-32b qwen-2.5 shieldgemma-2 julian fasttransform nvidia google mistral-ai allen-ai anthropic langchainai perplexity-ai kalshi stripe qodoai multimodality image-generation context-windows model-pricing open-source-models image-classification frameworks python-libraries partnerships jeremyphoward karpathy abacaj mervenoyann
At Nvidia GTC Day 1, several AI updates were highlighted: Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash introduces image input/output but is not recommended for text-to-image tasks, with Imagen 3 preferred for that. Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1 with 128k token context window and competitive pricing. Allen AI launched OLMo-32B, an open LLM outperforming GPT-4o mini and Qwen 2.5. ShieldGemma 2 was introduced for image safety classification. LangChainAI announced multiple updates including Julian powered by LangGraph and integration with AnthropicAI's MCP. Jeremy Howard released fasttransform, a Python library for data transformations. Perplexity AI partnered with Kalshi for NCAA March Madness predictions.
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gpt-4.5 gpt-4 gpt-4o o1 claude-3.5-sonnet claude-3.7 claude-3-opus deepseek-v3 grok-3 openai anthropic perplexity-ai deepseek scaling01 model-performance humor emotional-intelligence model-comparison pricing context-windows model-size user-experience andrej-karpathy jeremyphoward abacaj stevenheidel yuchenj_uw aravsrinivas dylan522p random_walker
GPT-4.5 sparked mixed reactions on Twitter, with @karpathy noting users preferred GPT-4 in a poll despite his personal favor for GPT-4.5's creativity and humor. Critics like @abacaj highlighted GPT-4.5's slowness and questioned its practical value and pricing compared to other models. Performance-wise, GPT-4.5 ranks above GPT-4o but below o1 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, with Claude 3.7 outperforming it on many tasks yet GPT-4.5 praised for its humor and "vibes." Speculation about GPT-4.5's size suggests around 5 trillion parameters. Discussions also touched on pricing disparities, with Perplexity Deep Research at $20/month versus ChatGPT at $200/month. The emotional intelligence and humor of models like Claude 3.7 were also noted.
Reasoning Models are Near-Superhuman Coders (OpenAI IOI, Nvidia Kernels)
o3 o1 o3-mini deepseek-r1 qwen-2.5 openthinker openai nvidia ollama elevenlabs sakana-ai apple reinforcement-learning gpu-kernel-optimization fine-tuning knowledge-distillation scaling-laws chain-of-thought-reasoning model-accessibility alex-wei karpathy abacaj awnihannun
o3 model achieved a gold medal at the 2024 IOI and ranks in the 99.8 percentile on Codeforces, outperforming most humans with reinforcement learning (RL) methods proving superior to inductive bias approaches. Nvidia's DeepSeek-R1 autonomously generates GPU kernels that surpass some expert-engineered kernels, showcasing simple yet effective AI-driven optimization. OpenAI updated o1 and o3-mini models to support file and image uploads in ChatGPT and released DeepResearch, a powerful research assistant based on the o3 model with RL for deep chain-of-thought reasoning. Ollama introduced OpenThinker models fine-tuned from Qwen2.5, outperforming some DeepSeek-R1 distillation models. ElevenLabs grew into a $3.3 billion company specializing in AI voice synthesis without open-sourcing their technology. Research highlights include Sakana AI Labs' TAID knowledge distillation method receiving a Spotlight at ICLR 2025, and Apple's work on scaling laws for mixture-of-experts (MoEs). The importance of open-source AI for scientific discovery was also emphasized.
Bespoke-Stratos + Sky-T1: The Vicuna+Alpaca moment for reasoning
sky-t1-32b-preview qwen-2.5-32b r1 o1-preview gpt-4o claude-3-sonnet bespoke-stratos-32b gemini-2.0-flash-thinking berkeley usc deepseek bespoke-labs google llmsys stanford lm-sys reasoning supervised-finetuning reinforcement-learning multimodality model-distillation context-windows code-execution model-repeatability behavioral-self-awareness rlhf teortaxestex cwolferesearch madiator chakraai philschmid abacaj omarsar0
Reasoning Distillation has emerged as a key technique, with Berkeley/USC researchers releasing Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a finetuned model of Qwen 2.5 32B using 17k reasoning traces for just $450, matching benchmarks of o1-preview. DeepSeek introduced R1, a model surpassing o1-preview and enabling distillation to smaller models like a 1.5B Qwen to match gpt-4o and claude-3-sonnet levels. Bespoke Labs further distilled R1 on Qwen, outperforming o1-preview with fewer samples. This progress suggests that "SFT is all you need" for reasoning without major architecture changes. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning with supervised finetuning to accelerate convergence and shows strong reasoning and multimodal capabilities. Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model boasts a 1 million token context window, code execution, and excels in math, science, and multimodal reasoning. Critiques highlight challenges in model repeatability, behavioral self-awareness, and RLHF limitations in reasoning robustness.
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
minimax-01 gpt-4o claude-3.5-sonnet internlm3-8b-instruct transformer2 google meta-ai-fair openai anthropic langchain long-context mixture-of-experts self-adaptive-models prompt-injection agent-authentication diffusion-models zero-trust-architecture continuous-adaptation vision agentic-systems omarsar0 hwchase17 abacaj hardmaru rez0__ bindureddy akhaliq saranormous
Google released a new paper on "Neural Memory" integrating persistent memory directly into transformer architectures at test time, showing promising long-context utilization. MiniMax-01 by @omarsar0 features a 4 million token context window with 456B parameters and 32 experts, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet. InternLM3-8B-Instruct is an open-source model trained on 4 trillion tokens with state-of-the-art results. Transformer² introduces self-adaptive LLMs that dynamically adjust weights for continuous adaptation. Advances in AI security highlight the need for agent authentication, prompt injection defenses, and zero-trust architectures. Tools like Micro Diffusion enable budget-friendly diffusion model training, while LeagueGraph and Agent Recipes support open-source social media agents.
Stripe lets Agents spend money with StripeAgentToolkit
gpt-4o gemini-exp-1114 stripe openai anthropic meta-ai-fair ai-computer-interfaces agentic-ai model-overfitting benchmarks scaling-laws agi chain-of-thought image-captioning dialogue-systems memory-efficient-fine-tuning diffusion-models mixture-of-experts adaptive-decoding creativity-optimization factuality-optimization pair-programming document-parsing retrieval-augmented-generation abacaj francois-fleuret lmarena_ai goodside jxmnop jaseweston stevenheidel
Stripe has pioneered an AI SDK specifically designed for agents that handle payments, integrating with models like gpt-4o to enable financial transactions and token-based charging. The AI developer tooling trend emphasizes better "AI-Computer Interfaces" for improved agent reliability, with tools like E2B and the
llms.txt documentation trend gaining traction, notably adopted by Anthropic. In AI model news, Gemini-Exp-1114 topped the Vision Leaderboard and improved in Math Arena, while discussions continue around model overfitting and the limits of scaling laws for AGI. OpenAI released a ChatGPT desktop app for macOS with integrations for VS Code, Xcode, and Terminal, enhancing developer workflows and pair programming. Anthropic introduced a prompt improver using chain-of-thought reasoning, and Meta AI shared top research from EMNLP2024 on image captioning, dialogue systems, and memory-efficient fine-tuning. Highlights from ICLR 2025 include diffusion-based illumination harmonization, open mixture-of-experts language models, and hyperbolic vision-language models. A new adaptive decoding method optimizes creativity and factuality per token. Tools like LlamaParse and RAGformation were also introduced for document parsing and retrieval-augmented generation. SciCode: HumanEval gets a STEM PhD upgrade
gpt-4 claude-3.5-sonnet llama-3-7b llama-3 dolphin-2.9.3-yi-1.5-34b-32k-gguf anthropic hugging-face nvidia benchmarks coding model-training gpu-optimization model-performance synthetic-data compiler-optimization zero-shot-learning yi-tay rohanpaul_ai alexalbert__ tri_dao abacaj
PhD-level benchmarks highlight the difficulty of coding scientific problems for LLMs, with GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet scoring under 5% on the new SciCode benchmark. Anthropic doubled the max output token limit for Claude 3.5 Sonnet to 8192 tokens. The Q-GaLore method enables training LLaMA-7B on a single 16GB GPU. The Mosaic compiler now generates efficient code for NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The Dolphin 2.9.3-Yi-1.5-34B-32k-GGUF model on Hugging Face has over 111k downloads. Llama 3 shows strong performance, achieving 90% zero-shot accuracy on the MATH dataset. Discussions continue on the limitations and forms of synthetic data for model training.
Chameleon: Meta's (unreleased) GPT4o-like Omnimodal Model
chameleon gpt-4o gemini-1.5-flash claude-3 meta-ai-fair openai google-deepmind anthropic reddit multimodality early-fusion benchmarking model-training tokenization streaming tool-use vision coding hallucination-detection model-performance armen-aghajanyan sama alexandr-wang abacaj alexalbert__
Meta AI FAIR introduced Chameleon, a new multimodal model family with 7B and 34B parameter versions trained on 10T tokens of interleaved text and image data enabling "early fusion" multimodality that can natively output any modality. While reasoning benchmarks are modest, its "omnimodality" approach competes well with pre-GPT4o multimodal models. OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a model excelling in benchmarks like MMLU and coding tasks, with strong multimodal capabilities but some regression in ELO scores and hallucination issues. Google DeepMind announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a small model with 1M context window and flash performance, highlighting convergence trends between OpenAI and Google models. Anthropic updated Claude 3 with streaming support, forced tool use, and vision tool integration for multimodal knowledge extraction. OpenAI also partnered with Reddit, raising industry attention.
Cursor reaches >1000 tok/s finetuning Llama3-70b for fast file editing
gpt-4 gpt-4o gpt-4-turbo gpt-4o-mini llama bloom stable-diffusion cursor openai anthropic google-deepmind huggingface speculative-decoding code-edits multimodality image-generation streaming tool-use fine-tuning benchmarking mmlu model-performance evaluation synthetic-data context-windows sama abacaj imjaredz erhartford alexalbert svpino maximelabonne _philschmid
Cursor, an AI-native IDE, announced a speculative edits algorithm for code editing that surpasses GPT-4 and GPT-4o in accuracy and latency, achieving speeds of over 1000 tokens/s on a 70b model. OpenAI released GPT-4o with multimodal capabilities including audio, vision, and text, noted to be 2x faster and 50% cheaper than GPT-4 turbo, though with mixed coding performance. Anthropic introduced streaming, forced tool use, and vision features for developers. Google DeepMind unveiled Imagen Video and Gemini 1.5 Flash, a small model with a 1M-context window. HuggingFace is distributing $10M in free GPUs for open-source AI models like Llama, BLOOM, and Stable Diffusion. Evaluation insights highlight challenges with LLMs on novel problems and benchmark saturation, with new benchmarks like MMLU-Pro showing significant drops in top model performance.
Quis promptum ipso promptiet?
llama-3-70b llama-3-120b llama-3 llama-cpp anthropic openai zoominfo neuralink prompt-engineering chain-of-thought rag quantization cuda-graphs gpu-optimization thought-controlled-devices modeling-consciousness conference sama gdb bindureddy svpino rohanpaul_ai alexalbert__ abacaj
Anthropic released upgrades to their Workbench Console, introducing new prompt engineering features like chain-of-thought reasoning and prompt generators that significantly reduce development time, exemplified by their customer Zoominfo. OpenAI teased a "magic" new development coming soon, speculated to be a new LLM replacing GPT-3.5 in the free tier or a search competitor. The open-source community highlighted Llama 3 70B as "game changing" with new quantized weights for Llama 3 120B and CUDA graph support for llama.cpp improving GPU performance. Neuralink demonstrated a thought-controlled mouse, sparking interest in modeling consciousness from brain signals. The ICLR 2024 conference is being held in Asia for the first time, generating excitement.
Zero to GPT in 1 Year
gpt-4-turbo claude-3-opus mixtral-8x22b zephyr-141b medical-mt5 openai anthropic mistral-ai langchain hugging-face fine-tuning multilinguality tool-integration transformers model-evaluation open-source-models multimodal-llms natural-language-processing ocr model-training vik-paruchuri sam-altman greg-brockman miranda-murati abacaj mbusigin akhaliq clementdelangue
GPT-4 Turbo reclaimed the top leaderboard spot with significant improvements in coding, multilingual, and English-only tasks, now rolled out in paid ChatGPT. Despite this, Claude Opus remains superior in creativity and intelligence. Mistral AI released powerful open-source models like Mixtral-8x22B and Zephyr 141B suited for fine-tuning. LangChain enhanced tool integration across models, and Hugging Face introduced Transformer.js for running transformers in browsers. Medical domain-focused Medical mT5 was shared as an open-source multilingual text-to-text model. The community also highlighted research on LLMs as regressors and shared practical advice on OCR/PDF data modeling from Vik Paruchuri's journey.
Not much happened piday
claude-3-haiku deepmind anthropic cohere embodied-ai-agents natural-language-instructions language-model-scaling mixture-of-experts retrieval-augmented-generation software-engineering ai-regulation differential-privacy privacy-preserving-learning humor demis-hassabis fchollet abacaj andrej-karpathy
DeepMind announces SIMA, a generalist AI agent capable of following natural language instructions across diverse 3D environments and video games, advancing embodied AI agents. Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, their fastest and most affordable model, now available via API and Perplexity. New research explores language model scaling laws, over-training, and introduces Branch-Train-MiX (BTX) for efficient training of large language models using mixture-of-experts. Predictions suggest software engineering jobs will grow to 30-35 million in five years, aided by AI coding assistants like Cohere's Command-R focusing on retrieval-augmented generation and tool use. The EU AI Act is approved, mandating transparency in training data for GPAI systems. Privacy-preserving in-context learning with differential privacy is highlighted as promising work. Memes humorously discuss AI software engineers and notable figures like Andrej Karpathy.
Inflection-2.5 at 94% of GPT4, and Pi at 6m MAU
inflection-2.5 claude-3-sonnet claude-3-opus gpt-4 yi-9b mistral inflection anthropic perplexity-ai llamaindex mistral-ai langchain retrieval-augmented-generation benchmarking ocr structured-output video-retrieval knowledge-augmentation planning tool-use evaluation code-benchmarks math-benchmarks mustafa-suleyman amanda-askell jeremyphoward abacaj omarsar0
Mustafa Suleyman announced Inflection 2.5, which achieves more than 94% the average performance of GPT-4 despite using only 40% the training FLOPs. Pi's user base is growing about 10% weekly, with new features like realtime web search. The community noted similarities between Inflection 2.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet. Claude 3 Opus outperformed GPT-4 in a 1.5:1 vote and is now the default for Perplexity Pro users. Anthropic added experimental tool calling support for Claude 3 via LangChain. LlamaIndex released LlamaParse JSON Mode for structured PDF parsing and added video retrieval via VideoDB, enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. A paper proposed knowledge-augmented planning for LLM agents. New benchmarks like TinyBenchmarks and the Yi-9B model release show strong code and math performance, surpassing Mistral.