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OpenAI launched GPT-5.1 featuring "adaptive reasoning" and developer-focused API improvements, including prompt caching and a reasoning_effort toggle for latency/cost tradeoffs. Independent analysis shows a minor intelligence bump with significant gains in agentic coding benchmarks. Anthropic's Claude models introduced structured outputs with JSON schema compliance in public beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1, enhancing tooling and code execution workflows. Rumors of an Opus 4.5 release were debunked. LangChain released a "Deep Agents" package and context-engineering playbook to optimize agent workflows. The community is eagerly anticipating Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 model, hinted at in social media and upcoming AIE CODE events. "Tickets are sold out, but side events and volunteering opportunities are available."
OpenAI's IMO Gold model also wins IOI Gold
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OpenAI announced placing #6 among human coders at the IOI, reflecting rapid progress in competitive coding AI over the past two years. The GPT-5 launch faced significant user backlash over restrictive usage limits and removal of model selection control, leading to a reversal and increased limits to 3000 requests per week for Plus users. Confusion around GPT-5 naming and benchmarking was highlighted, with critiques on methodological issues comparing models like Claude and Gemini. Performance reviews of GPT-5 are mixed, with claims of near-zero hallucinations by OpenAI staff but user reports of confidence in hallucinations and steering difficulties. Benchmarks show GPT-5 mini performing well on document understanding, while the full GPT-5 is seen as expensive and middling. On the Chatbot Arena, Gemini 2.5 Pro holds a 67% winrate against GPT-5 Thinking. Prompting and model behavior remain key discussion points.
SmolLM3: the SOTA 3B reasoning open source LLM
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HuggingFace released SmolLM3-3B, a fully open-source small reasoning model with open pretraining code and data, marking a high point in open source models until Olmo 3 arrives. Grok 4 was launched with mixed reactions, while concerns about Claude 4 nerfs and an imminent Claude 4.1 surfaced. Gemini Nano is now shipping in Chrome 137+, enabling local LLM access for 3.7 billion users. Tencent introduced Hunyuan-A13B, an 80B parameter model with a 256K context window running on a single H200 GPU. The Gemini API added a batch mode with 50% discounts on 2.5 models. MatFormer Lab launched tools for custom-sized Gemma 3n models. Open source OCR models like Nanonets-OCR-s and ChatDOC/OCRFlux-3B derived from Qwen2.5-VL-3B were highlighted, with licensing discussions involving Alibaba.