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not much happened this weekend
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Nous Research announced DisTrO, a new optimizer that drastically reduces inter-GPU communication by 1000x to 10,000x enabling efficient training on slow networks, offering an alternative to GDM's DiLoCo. Cursor AI gained viral attention from an 8-year-old user and announced a new fundraise, with co-host Aman returning to their podcast. George Hotz launched tinybox for sale. In robotics, AGIBOT revealed 5 new humanoid robots with open-source plans, and Unitree showcased its G1 humanoid robot nearing mass production at $16,000. ETH Zurich and Disney developed an AI system for physics-based robot motion generation from text or images. UC San Diego released ACE, an open-source teleoperation system for controlling multiple robots. AI21 Labs unveiled Jamba 1.5, a multilingual model with 256k context length and permissive licensing. Luma Labs released Dream Machine 1.5 for improved text-to-video generation. Ideogram launched v2 of its text-to-image model with near-perfect text generation. Nvidia and Mistral released Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a small model outperforming Mistral-7B and llama-3-8b on the Open LLM leaderboard.