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Grok 4: xAI succeeds in going from 0 to new SOTA LLM in 2 years
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xAI launched Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, large language models rumored to have 2.4 trillion parameters and trained with 100x more compute than Grok 2 on 100k H100 GPUs. Grok 4 achieved new state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like ARC-AGI-2 (15.9%), HLE (50.7%), and Vending-Bench, outperforming models such as Claude 4 Opus. The model supports a 256K context window and is priced at $3.00/M input tokens and $15.00/M output tokens. It is integrated into platforms like Cursor, Cline, LangChain, and Perplexity Pro/Max. The launch was accompanied by a controversial voice mode and sparked industry discussion about xAI's rapid development pace, with endorsements from figures like Elon Musk and Arav Srinivas.
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Meta has hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as its new Chief AI Officer, acquiring a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion, doubling its valuation to ~$28 billion. This move is part of a major talent shuffle involving Meta, OpenAI, and Scale AI. Discussions include the impact on Yann LeCun's influence at Meta and potential responses from OpenAI. In model news, Gemma 3N faces technical issues like vision NaNs and FP16 overflows, with fixes from UnslothAI. Chinese open-source models like GLM-4.1V-Thinking by Zhipu AI and DeepSeek R1T2 show strong performance and speed improvements. Huawei open-sourced a 72B MoE model with a novel load balancing solution. The MiniMax-M1 hybrid MoE model leads math benchmarks on the Text Arena leaderboard. AllenAI launched SciArena for scientific literature evaluation, where o3 outperforms others. Research from Sakana AI Labs introduces AB-MCTS for code generation, improving synthesis benchmarks.
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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".
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Anthropic's Claude 4 models (Opus 4, Sonnet 4) demonstrate strong coding abilities, with Sonnet 4 achieving 72.7% on SWE-bench and Opus 4 at 72.5%. Claude Sonnet 4 excels in codebase understanding and is considered SOTA on large codebases. Criticism arose over Anthropic's handling of ASL-3 security requirements. Demand for Claude 4 is high, with integration into IDEs and support from Cherry Studio and FastHTML. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think and Gemma 3n, a mobile multimodal model reducing RAM usage by nearly 3x. Google's Imagen 4 Ultra ranks third in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, available on Vertex AI Studio. Google also promoted Google Beam, an AI video model for immersive 3D experiences, and new text-to-speech models with multi-speaker support. The GAIA benchmark shows Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet leading in agentic performance.
Anthropic releases Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus: Memory, Agent Capabilities, Claude Code, Redteam Drama
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Anthropic has officially released Claude 4 with two variants: Claude Opus 4, a high-capability model for complex tasks priced at $15/$75 per million tokens, and Claude Sonnet 4, optimized for efficient everyday use. The release emphasizes instruction following and extended work sessions up to 7 hours. Community discussions highlight concerns about token pricing, token accounting transparency, and calls for open-sourcing Claude 3.5 Sonnet weights to support local model development. The news also covers Claude Code GA, new Agent Capabilities API, and various livestreams and reports detailing these updates. There is notable debate around sliding window attention and advanced inference techniques for local deployment.