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grok-4 smollm3 t5gemma claude-3.7-sonnet deepseek-r1 langchain openai google-deepmind perplexity xai microsoft huggingface anthropic agentic-ai model-controversy open-source model-release alignment fine-tuning long-context multimodality model-research aravsrinivas clementdelangue _akhaliq
LangChain is nearing unicorn status, while OpenAI and Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 Pro models are launching soon. Perplexity rolls out its agentic browser Comet to waitlists, offering multitasking and voice command features. xAI's Grok-4 update sparked controversy due to offensive outputs, drawing comparisons to Microsoft's Tay bot and resulting in regional blocks. Hugging Face released SmolLM3, a 3B parameter open-source model with state-of-the-art reasoning and long context capabilities. Google introduced T5Gemma encoder-decoder models, a significant update in this model category. Anthropic investigates "alignment faking" in language models, focusing on safety concerns with models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek-R1. "Grok 3 had high reasoning, Grok 4 has heil reasoning" was a notable user comment on the controversy.
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.
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veo-3 deepseek-r1t2 deepseek-tng-r1t2-chimera o3-deep-research o4-mini-deep-research deepswe-agent safe-superintelligence-inc perplexity-ai meta-ai-fair midjourney sakana-ai cohere google-deepmind deepseek openai together-ai video-generation assembly-of-experts model-licenses api-pricing research-roles product-expansion corporate-leadership model-release team-expansion ilya_sutskever daniel_levy daniel_gross aravsrinivas zeyuanallenzhu nat_friedman davidsholz fp_champagne demishassabis reach_vb
Ilya Sutskever confirmed his role as CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) with Daniel Levy as President, dismissing acquisition rumors and emphasizing their strong team and compute resources. Perplexity AI expanded its data integrations by adding Morningstar's financial research and hinted at new product features for Pro users. Meta AI FAIR clarified its research structure, distinguishing its small lab from larger model training groups, and welcomed Nat Friedman to enhance AI product development. Midjourney and Sakana AI announced hiring for research and applied engineering roles. Cohere expanded its presence in Montréal, receiving praise from Canadian officials. On the model front, Google DeepMind's Gemini Pro released the Veo 3 video generation model globally. DeepSeek launched the faster DeepSeek R1T2 model using an Assembly of Experts approach, available under an MIT license. Kling AI showcased cinematic video generation capabilities. OpenAI introduced a high-cost Deep Research API with pricing up to $30 per call. Together AI announced the release of the DeepSWE agent.
Reasoning Price War 2: Mistral Magistral + o3's 80% price cut + o3-pro
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OpenAI announced an 80% price cut for its o3 model, making it competitively priced with GPT-4.1 and rivaling Anthropic's Claude 4 Sonnet and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. Alongside, o3-pro was released as a more powerful and reliable variant, though early benchmarks showed mixed performance relative to cost. Mistral AI launched its Magistral reasoning models, including an open-source 24B parameter version optimized for efficient deployment on consumer GPUs. The price reduction and new model releases signal intensified competition in reasoning-focused large language models, with notable improvements in token efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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codex claude-4-opus claude-4-sonnet gemini-2.5-pro gemini-2.5 qwen-2.5-vl qwen-3 playdiffusion openai anthropic google perplexity-ai bing playai suno hugging-face langchain-ai qwen mlx assemblyai llamacloud fine-tuning model-benchmarking text-to-video agentic-ai retrieval-augmented-generation open-source-models speech-editing audio-processing text-to-speech ultra-low-latency multimodality public-notebooks sama gdb kevinweil lmarena_ai epochairesearch reach_vb wightmanr deeplearningai mervenoyann awnihannun jordirib1 aravsrinivas omarsar0 lioronai jerryjliu0 nerdai tonywu_71 _akhaliq clementdelangue _mfelfel
OpenAI rolled out Codex to ChatGPT Plus users with internet access and fine-grained controls, improving memory features for free users. Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet models lead coding benchmarks, while Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models gain recognition with new audio capabilities. Qwen 2.5-VL and Qwen 3 quantizations are noted for versatility and support. Bing Video Creator launched globally enabling text-to-video generation, and Perplexity Labs sees increased demand for travel search. New agentic AI tools and RAG innovations include LlamaCloud and FedRAG. Open-source releases include Holo-1 for web navigation and PlayAI's PlayDiffusion for speech editing. Audio and multimodal advances feature Suno's music editing upgrades, Google's native TTS in 24+ languages, and Universal Streaming's ultra-low latency speech-to-text. Google NotebookLM now supports public notebooks. "Codex's internet access brings tradeoffs, with explicit warnings about risk" and "Gemini 2.5 Pro is cited as a daily driver by users".
Cognition's DeepWiki, a free encyclopedia of all GitHub repos
o4-mini perception-encoder qwen-2.5-vl dia-1.6b grok-3 gemini-2.5-pro claude-3.7 gpt-4.1 cognition meta-ai-fair alibaba hugging-face openai perplexity-ai vllm vision text-to-speech reinforcement-learning ocr model-releases model-integration open-source frameworks chatbots model-selector silas-alberti mervenoyann reach_vb aravsrinivas vikparuchuri lioronai
Silas Alberti of Cognition announced DeepWiki, a free encyclopedia of all GitHub repos providing Wikipedia-like descriptions and Devin-backed chatbots for public repos. Meta released Perception Encoders (PE) with A2.0 license, outperforming InternVL3 and Qwen2.5VL on vision tasks. Alibaba launched the Qwen Chat App for iOS and Android. Hugging Face integrated the Dia 1.6B SoTA text-to-speech model via FAL. OpenAI expanded deep research usage with a lightweight version powered by o4-mini model, now available to free users. Perplexity AI updated their model selector with Grok 3 Beta, o4-mini, and support for models like gemini 2.5 pro, claude 3.7, and gpt-4.1. vLLM project introduced OpenRLHF framework for reinforcement learning with human feedback. Surya OCR alpha model supports 90+ languages and LaTeX. MegaParse open-source library was introduced for LLM-ready data formats.
GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
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OpenAI released GPT-4.1, including GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano, highlighting improvements in coding, instruction following, and handling long contexts up to 1 million tokens. The model achieves a 54 score on SWE-bench verified and shows a 60% improvement over GPT-4o on internal benchmarks. Pricing for GPT-4.1 nano is notably low at $0.10/1M input and $0.40/1M output. GPT-4.5 Preview is being deprecated in favor of GPT-4.1. Integration support includes Llama Index with day 0 support. Some negative feedback was noted for GPT-4.1 nano. Additionally, Perplexity's Sonar API ties with Gemini-2.5 Pro for the top spot in the LM Search Arena leaderboard. New benchmarks like MRCR and GraphWalks were introduced alongside updated prompting guides and cookbooks.
Anthropic's $61.5B Series E
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Anthropic raised a $3.5 billion Series E funding round at a $61.5 billion valuation, signaling strong financial backing for the Claude AI model. GPT-4.5 achieved #1 rank across all categories on the LMArena leaderboard, excelling in multi-turn conversations, coding, math, creative writing, and style control. DeepSeek R1 tied with GPT-4.5 for top performance on hard prompts with style control. Discussions highlighted comparisons between GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet in coding and workflow applications. The importance of the LMSYS benchmark was emphasized, though some questioned the relevance of benchmarks versus user acquisition. Additionally, Perplexity AI partnered with Deutsche Telekom to integrate the Perplexity Assistant into a new AI phone.
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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.
lots of small launches
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GPT-4o Advanced Voice Preview is now available for free ChatGPT users with enhanced daily limits for Plus and Pro users. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has achieved the top rank in WebDev Arena with improved token efficiency. DeepSeek-R1 with 671B parameters benefits from the Together Inference platform optimizing NVIDIA Blackwell GPU usage, alongside the open-source DeepGEMM CUDA library delivering up to 2.7x speedups on Hopper GPUs. Perplexity launched a new Voice Mode and a Deep Research API. The upcoming Grok 3 API will support a 1M token context window. Several companies including Elicit, Amazon, Anthropic, Cloudflare, FLORA, Elevenlabs, and Inception Labs announced new funding rounds, product launches, and model releases.
The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters
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Huggingface released "The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters," an interactive blogpost based on 4000 scaling experiments on up to 512 GPUs, providing detailed insights into modern GPU training strategies. DeepSeek introduced the Native Sparse Attention (NSA) model, gaining significant community attention, while Perplexity AI launched R1-1776, an uncensored and unbiased version of DeepSeek's R1 model. Google DeepMind unveiled PaliGemma 2 Mix, a multi-task vision-language model available in 3B, 10B, and 28B sizes. Microsoft introduced Muse, a generative AI model trained on the game Bleeding Edge, and presented Magma, a foundation model for multimodal AI agents excelling in UI navigation and robotic manipulation. Baichuan-M1-14B was announced as a state-of-the-art medical LLM trained on 20T tokens, and a fully open-source 40B genome modeling model using StripedHyena 2 architecture was also released. "Making your own gaming experience is coming sooner than you'd think," noted in relation to Muse.
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chatgpt-4o deepseek-r1 o3 o3-mini gemini-2-flash qwen-2.5 qwen-0.5b hugging-face openai perplexity-ai deepseek-ai gemini qwen metr_evals reasoning benchmarking model-performance prompt-engineering model-optimization model-deployment small-language-models mobile-ai ai-agents speed-optimization _akhaliq aravsrinivas lmarena_ai omarsar0 risingsayak
Smolagents library by Huggingface continues trending. ChatGPT-4o latest version
chatgpt-40-latest-20250129 released. DeepSeek R1 671B sets speed record at 198 t/s, fastest reasoning model, recommended with specific prompt settings. Perplexity Deep Research outperforms models like Gemini Thinking, o3-mini, and DeepSeek-R1 on Humanity's Last Exam benchmark with 21.1% score and 93.9% accuracy on SimpleQA. ChatGPT-4o ranks #1 on Arena leaderboard in multiple categories except math. OpenAI's o3 model powers Deep Research tool for ChatGPT Pro users. Gemini 2 Flash and Qwen 2.5 models support LLMGrading verifier. Qwen 2.5 models added to PocketPal app. MLX shows small LLMs like Qwen 0.5B generate tokens at high speed on M4 Max and iPhone 16 Pro. Gemini Flash 2.0 leads new AI agent leaderboard. DeepSeek R1 is most liked on Hugging Face with over 10 million downloads. Perplexity starts Shopping for you
pixtral-large-124b llama-3.1-405b claude-3.6 claude-3.5 stripe perplexity-ai mistral-ai hugging-face cerebras anthropic weights-biases google vllm-project multi-modal image-generation inference context-windows model-performance model-efficiency sdk ai-integration one-click-checkout memory-optimization patrick-collison jeff-weinstein mervenoyann sophiamyang tim-dettmers omarsar0 akhaliq aravsrinivas
Stripe launched their Agent SDK, enabling AI-native shopping experiences like Perplexity Shopping for US Pro members, featuring one-click checkout and free shipping via the Perplexity Merchant Program. Mistral AI released the Pixtral Large 124B multi-modal image model, now on Hugging Face and supported by Le Chat for image generation. Cerebras Systems offers a public inference endpoint for Llama 3.1 405B with a 128k context window and high throughput. Claude 3.6 shows improvements over Claude 3.5 but with subtle hallucinations. The Bi-Mamba 1-bit architecture improves LLM efficiency. The wandb SDK is preinstalled on Google Colab, and Pixtral Large is integrated into AnyChat and supported by vLLM for efficient model usage.
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grok-beta llama-3-1-70b claude-3-5-haiku claude-3-opus llama-3 chatgpt gemini meta-ai-fair scale-ai anthropic perplexity-ai langchainai weights-biases qwen pricing national-security defense open-source agentic-ai retrieval-augmented-generation election-predictions real-time-updates annotation ai-ecosystem memes humor alexandr_wang svpino aravsrinivas bindureddy teortaxestex jessechenglyu junyang-lin cte_junior jerryjliu0
Grok Beta surpasses Llama 3.1 70B in intelligence but is less competitive due to its pricing at $5/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens. Defense Llama, developed with Meta AI and Scale AI, targets American national security applications. SWE-Kit, an open-source framework, supports building customizable AI software engineers compatible with Llama 3, ChatGPT, and Claude. LangChainAI and Weights & Biases integrate to improve retrievers and reduce hallucinations in RAG applications using Gemini. Perplexity AI offers enhanced election tracking tools for the 2024 elections, including live state results and support for Claude 3.5 Haiku. AI Talk launched featuring discussions on Chinese AI labs with guests from Qwen. Memes highlight Elon Musk and humorous AI coding mishaps.
not much happened this weekend
claude-3.5-sonnet llama-3 llama-3-8b notebookllama min-omni-2 moondream openai anthropic hugging-face mistral-ai google-deepmind langchain deepmind microsoft pattern-recognition reinforcement-learning prompt-optimization text-to-speech model-optimization tensor-parallelism hyperparameters multimodal modal-alignment multimodal-fine-tuning ai-productivity privacy generative-ai rag retrieval-augmentation enterprise-text-to-sql amanda-askell philschmid stasbekman francois-fleuret mervenoyann reach_vb dzhng aravsrinivas sama lateinteraction andrew-y-ng bindureddy jerryjliu0
Moondream, a 1.6b vision language model, secured seed funding, highlighting a trend in moon-themed tiny models alongside Moonshine (27-61m ASR model). Claude 3.5 Sonnet was used for AI Twitter recaps. Discussions included pattern recognition vs. intelligence in LLMs, reinforcement learning for prompt optimization, and NotebookLlama, an open-source NotebookLM variant using LLaMA models for tasks like text-to-speech. Advances in model optimization with async-TP in PyTorch for tensor parallelism and hyperparameter tuning were noted. Mini-Omni 2 demonstrated multimodal capabilities across image, audio, and text for voice conversations with emphasis on modal alignment and multimodal fine-tuning. AI productivity tools like an AI email writer and LlamaCloud-based research assistants were introduced. Emphasis on practical skill development and privacy-conscious AI tool usage with Llama3-8B was highlighted. Generative AI tools such as #AIPythonforBeginners and GenAI Agents with LangGraph were shared. Business insights covered rapid execution in AI product development and emerging AI-related job roles. Challenges in enterprise-grade text-to-SQL and advanced retrieval methods were discussed with tutorials on RAG applications using LangChain and MongoDB.
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llama-3.1-nemotron-70b golden-gate-claude embed-3 liquid-ai anthropic cohere openai meta-ai-fair nvidia perplexity-ai langchain kestra ostrisai llamaindex feature-steering social-bias multimodality model-optimization workflow-orchestration inference-speed event-driven-workflows knowledge-backed-agents economic-impact ai-national-security trust-dynamics sam-altman lmarena_ai aravsrinivas svpino richardmcngo ajeya_cotra tamaybes danhendrycks jerryjliu0
Liquid AI held a launch event introducing new foundation models. Anthropic shared follow-up research on social bias and feature steering with their "Golden Gate Claude" feature. Cohere released multimodal Embed 3 embeddings models following Aya Expanse. There was misinformation about GPT-5/Orion debunked by Sam Altman. Meta AI FAIR announced Open Materials 2024 with new models and datasets for inorganic materials discovery using the EquiformerV2 architecture. Anthropic AI demonstrated feature steering to balance social bias and model capabilities. NVIDIA's Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B ranked highly on the Arena leaderboard with style control. Perplexity AI expanded to 100M weekly queries with new finance and reasoning modes. LangChain emphasized real application integration with interactive frame interpolation. Kestra highlighted scalable event-driven workflows with open-source YAML-based orchestration. OpenFLUX optimized inference speed by doubling it through guidance LoRA training. Discussions on AI safety included trust dynamics between humans and AI, economic impacts of AI automation, and the White House AI National Security memo addressing cyber and biological risks. LlamaIndex showcased knowledge-backed agents for enhanced AI applications.
DeepSeek Janus and Meta SpiRit-LM: Decoupled Image and Expressive Voice Omnimodality
nemotron-70b claude claude-3.5-sonnet gpt-4o deepseek meta-ai-fair wandb nvidia anthropic hugging-face perplexity-ai multimodality image-generation speech-synthesis fine-tuning model-merging benchmarking open-source model-optimization reinforcement-learning bindureddy aravsrinivas danielhanchen clementdelangue cwolferesearch
DeepSeek Janus and Meta SpiRit-LM are two notable multimodality AI models recently released, showcasing advances in image generation and speech synthesis respectively. DeepSeek Janus separates vision encoders for image understanding and generation, achieving better results in both tasks. Meta's SpiRit-LM introduces an expressive speech and writing model generating pitch and style units, improving over standard TTS. Additionally, W&B Weave offers comprehensive LLM observability and multimodality fine-tuning tools. Industry updates include Nvidia's Nemotron 70b model underperforming, Meta open-sourcing Movie Gen Bench for media generation benchmarking, Perplexity launching internal search with multi-step reasoning, and Anthropic updating Claude apps. Open source progress includes Hugging Face's gradient accumulation fix in transformers and advocacy for open source AI to prevent Big Tech dominance. "Model merging for combining skills of multiple models" is also highlighted.
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claudette llama-3-1 yi-lightning gpt-4o claude-3.5-sonnet answer-ai tencent notebooklm motherduck perplexity dropbox openai meta-ai-fair yi-ai zyphra-ai anthropic langchain openai synthetic-data fine-tuning sql audio-processing on-device-ai dataset-release transformer llm-reasoning ai-safety code-generation ai-pricing ai-job-market fchollet aravsrinivas svpino swyx
Answer.ai launched fastdata, a synthetic data generation library using
claudette and Tencent's Billion Persona paper. NotebookLM became customizable, and Motherduck introduced notable LLMs in SQL implementations. Perplexity and Dropbox announced competitors to Glean. OpenAI unveiled audio chat completions priced at 24 cents per minute. Meta AI released Llama 3.1, powering Lenovo AI Now's on-device agent. Yi-Lightning model ranked #6 globally, surpassing GPT-4o. Zyphra AI released the large Zyda-2 dataset with 5 trillion tokens. François Chollet clarified transformer architecture as set-processing, not sequence-processing. Research suggests memorization aids LLM reasoning. Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy for AI safety. Tools like Perplexity Finance, Open Canvas by LangChain, and AlphaCodium code generation tool were highlighted. Approximately $500 million was raised for AI agent startups, with ongoing discussions on AI's job market impact. Combining prompt caching with the Batches API can yield a 95% discount on Claude 3.5 Sonnet tokens. not much happened today
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OpenAI's o1-preview and o1-mini models lead benchmarks in Math, Hard Prompts, and Coding. Qwen 2.5 72B model shows strong performance close to GPT-4o. DeepSeek-V2.5 tops Chinese LLMs, rivaling GPT-4-Turbo-2024-04-09. Microsoft's GRIN MoE achieves good results with 6.6B active parameters. Moshi voice model from Kyutai Labs runs locally on Apple Silicon Macs. Perplexity app introduces voice mode with push-to-talk. LlamaCoder by Together.ai uses Llama 3.1 405B for app generation. Google DeepMind's Veo is a new generative video model for YouTube Shorts. The 2024 ARC-AGI competition increases prize money and plans a university tour. A survey on model merging covers 50+ papers for LLM alignment. The Kolmogorov–Arnold Transformer (KAT) paper proposes replacing MLP layers with KAN layers for better expressiveness. Hugging Face Hub integrates with Google Cloud Vertex AI Model Garden for easier open-source model deployment. Agent.ai is introduced as a professional network for AI agents. "Touching grass is all you need."
Claude 3 is officially America's Next Top Model
claude-3-opus claude-3-sonnet claude-3-haiku gpt-4o-mini mistral-7b qwen-72b anthropic mistral-ai huggingface openrouter stable-diffusion automatic1111 comfyui fine-tuning model-merging alignment ai-ethics benchmarking model-performance long-context cost-efficiency model-evaluation mark_riedl ethanjperez stuhlmueller ylecun aravsrinivas
Claude 3 Opus outperforms GPT4T and Mistral Large in blind Elo rankings, with Claude 3 Haiku marking a new cost-performance frontier. Fine-tuning techniques like QLoRA on Mistral 7B and evolutionary model merging on HuggingFace models are highlighted. Public opinion shows strong opposition to ASI development. Research supervision opportunities in AI alignment are announced. The Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) release raises workflow concerns for tools like ComfyUI and automatic1111. Opus shows a 5% performance dip on OpenRouter compared to the Anthropic API. A new benchmark stresses LLM recall at long contexts, with Mistral 7B struggling and Qwen 72b performing well.
Stable Diffusion 3 — Rombach & Esser did it again!
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Over 2500 new community members joined following Soumith Chintala's shoutout, highlighting growing interest in SOTA LLM-based summarization. The major highlight is the detailed paper release of Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3), showcasing advanced text-in-image control and complex prompt handling, with the model outperforming other SOTA image generation models in human-evaluated benchmarks. The SD3 model is based on an enhanced Diffusion Transformer architecture called MMDiT. Meanwhile, Anthropic released Claude 3 models, noted for human-like responses and emotional depth, scoring 79.88% on HumanEval but costing over twice as much as GPT-4. Microsoft launched new Orca-based models and datasets, and Latitude released DolphinCoder-StarCoder2-15b with strong coding capabilities. Integration of image models by Perplexity AI and 3D CAD generation by PolySpectra powered by LlamaIndex were also highlighted. "SD3's win rate beats all other SOTA image gen models (except perhaps Ideogram)" and "Claude 3 models are very good at generating d3 visualizations from text descriptions."