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not much happened today
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OpenAI and AWS announced a strategic partnership involving a $38B compute deal to deploy hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 chips, while Microsoft secured a license to ship NVIDIA GPUs to the UAE with a planned $7.9B datacenter investment. A 3-month NVFP4 kernel optimization competition on Blackwell B200s was launched by NVIDIA and GPU_MODE with prizes including DGX Spark and RTX 50XX GPUs. vLLM gains traction for local LLM serving, exemplified by PewDiePie's adoption. Alibaba previewed the Qwen3-Max-Thinking model hitting 100% on AIME 2025 and HMMT benchmarks, signaling advances in reasoning with tool use. The MIT-licensed MiniMax-M2 230B MoE model topped the Arena WebDev leaderboard, tying with Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking 32k. Critiques emerged on OSWorld benchmark stability and task validity. LlamaIndex's LIGHT framework demonstrated significant improvements in long-term memory tasks over raw context and RAG baselines, with gains up to +160.6% in summarization at 10M tokens. Amazon introduced Chronos-2, a time-series foundation model for zero-shot forecasting. The MCP ecosystem expanded with new tools like mcp2py OAuth integration and Gemini Docs MCP server, alongside a build sprint by Anthropic and Gradio offering substantial credits and prizes. "OSWorld doesn’t really exist—different prompt sets = incomparable scores" highlights benchmarking challenges.
Air Street's State of AI 2025 Report
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Reflection raised $2B to build frontier open-weight models with a focus on safety and evaluation, led by a team with backgrounds from AlphaGo, PaLM, and Gemini. Figure launched its next-gen humanoid robot, Figure 03, emphasizing non-teleoperated capabilities for home and large-scale use. Radical Numerics released RND1, a 30B-parameter sparse MoE diffusion language model with open weights and code to advance diffusion LM research. Zhipu posted strong results with GLM-4.6 on the Design Arena benchmark, while AI21 Labs' Jamba Reasoning 3B leads tiny reasoning models. Anthropic introduced a plugin system for Claude Code to enhance developer tools and agent stacks. The report also highlights SoftBank's acquisition of ABB's robotics unit for $5.4B and the growing ecosystem around open frontier modeling and small-model reasoning.
Gemini 2.5 Computer Use preview beats Sonnet 4.5 and OAI CUA
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Google DeepMind released a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model for browser and Android UI control, evaluated by Browserbase. OpenAI showcased GPT-5 Pro, new developer tools including Codex with Slack integration, and agent-building SDKs at Dev Day. Google DeepMind's CodeMender automates security patching for large codebases. Microsoft introduced an open-source Agent Framework for multi-agent enterprise systems. AI community discussions highlight agent orchestration, program synthesis, and UI control advancements. GLM-4.6 update from Zhipu features a large Mixture-of-Experts model with 355B parameters.
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OpenAI integrates GPT-5 into Xcode 26 with improved coding latency, though some UX trade-offs are noted. xAI's Grok Code Fast 1 gains momentum, surpassing Claude Sonnet in usage and praised for fast debugging. Zhipu's GLM-4.5 offers a cost-effective coding plan with strong performance against Claude Sonnet 4. Meituan releases the LongCat-Flash-Chat, a 560B parameter MoE model with adaptive compute and detailed technical insights. Apple debuts on-device vision-language models FastVLM and MobileCLIP2 alongside InternVL3.5.
OpenAI Realtime API GA and new `gpt-realtime` model, 20% cheaper than 4o
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OpenAI launched the gpt-realtime model and Realtime API to GA, featuring advanced speech-to-speech capabilities, new voices (Cedar, Marin), image input, SIP telephony, and a ~20% price cut. Benchmarks show improvements over gpt-4o-realtime on BigBench and ComplexFuncBench. xAI introduced Grok Code Fast 1, a speed-optimized coding model integrated with popular IDEs, while OpenAI Codex received major upgrades for local and cloud development workflows. Google’s Gemini CLI improved multi-editor support, and new models like Microsoft MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1 were announced. "The new all-in-one WebRTC API removes the ephemeral token step and supports video on the same connection," highlighting enhanced developer tooling.
OpenAI updates Codex, VSCode Extension that can sync tasks with Codex Cloud
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OpenAI Codex has launched a new IDE Extension integrating with VS Code and Cursor, enabling seamless local and cloud task handoff, sign-in via ChatGPT plans, upgraded CLI, and GitHub code review automation. Facebook AI researchers introduced StepWiser, a process-level reward model improving reasoning and training by chunk-by-chunk evaluation, achieving SOTA on ProcessBench. Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model showcases advanced spatial reasoning, multi-image fusion, and developer tools including a browser extension for image remixing. NVIDIA revealed efficiency data on Nemotron-CC-Math (133B) and Jet-Nemotron models.
DeepSeek V3.1: 840B token continued pretrain, beating Claude 4 Sonnet at 11% of its cost
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DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.1, a quietly rolled out open model with an 128K context window and improvements in token efficiency, coding, and agentic benchmarks. ByteDance launched the permissive Seed-OSS 36B model on Hugging Face, noted for long-context and reasoning capabilities. Zhipu AI introduced ComputerRL, a reinforcement learning framework for computer-use agents, achieving strong benchmark results. In developer tooling, GitHub Copilot expanded globally, Microsoft VS Code integrated Gemini 2.5 Pro and updated GPT-5 agent prompts, and Anthropic launched Claude Code seats with spend controls. Open-source fine-tuning advances include Together AI adding SFT for gpt-oss-120B/20B and Baseten enabling multinode 120B training with Truss CLI. The community noted mixed performance and ongoing post-training adjustments for DeepSeek V3.1.
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OpenAI rolled out GPT-5 as the default in ChatGPT with new modes and a "warmer" personality, plus expanded message limits for Plus/Team users and Enterprise/Edu access. Performance rankings show gpt-5-high leading, with smaller variants also ranked, though critiques note some underperformance versus Chinese models and sensitivity to sycophancy. OpenAI enhanced developer tools with a "Quick eval" feature, coding tips, and an improved Playground. Google released Imagen 4 generally available with faster generation and higher resolution, plus the ultra-small Gemma 3 270M model with a large vocabulary and ecosystem support. Podcasts featured OpenAI leaders discussing GPT-5 systems, routing, and efficiency.
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OpenAI released the GPT-5 series including GPT-5-mini and GPT-5-nano, with mixed user feedback on performance and API behavior. Anthropic extended Claude Sonnet 4 context window to 1 million tokens, a 5x increase, enhancing large document processing. Zhipu AI launched the open-source multimodal GLM-4.5V model with improvements in RL scaling and agentic tasks. Google DeepMind showcased the video generation model Genie 3 and updated the Gemini App with new features like Deep Think and Gemini Live. Alibaba Qwen released the distilled image model Qwen-Image distilled and enhanced their Deep Research capabilities. Open source models like Skywork's Matrix-Game 2.0 and Jan.ai's Jan-v1 (built on Qwen3-4B-Thinking) were introduced, focusing on real-time world modeling and web search respectively. Developer tools such as Claude Code and Cursor were also highlighted.
Voxtral - Mistral's SOTA ASR model in 3B (mini) and 24B ("small") sizes beats OpenAI Whisper large-v3
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Mistral surprises with the release of Voxtral, a transcription model outperforming Whisper large-v3, GPT-4o mini Transcribe, and Gemini 2.5 Flash. Voxtral models (3B and 24B) support 32k token context length, handle audios up to 30-40 minutes, offer built-in Q&A and summarization, are multilingual, and enable function-calling from voice commands, powered by the Mistral Small 3.1 language model backbone. Meanwhile, Moonshot AI's Kimi K2, a non-reasoning Mixture of Experts (MoE) model built by a team of around 200 people, gains attention for blazing-fast inference on Groq hardware, broad platform availability including Together AI and DeepInfra, and local running on M4 Max 128GB Mac. Developer tool integrations include LangChain and Hugging Face support, highlighting Kimi K2's strong tool use capabilities.
Google I/O: new Gemini native voice, Flash, DeepThink, AI Mode (DeepSearch+Mariner+Astra)
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Google I/O 2024 showcased significant advancements with Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Think reasoning mode from google-deepmind, emphasizing AI-driven transformations and developer opportunities. GeminiApp aims to become a universal AI assistant on the path to AGI, with new features like AI Mode in Google Search expanding generative AI access. The event included multiple keynotes and updates on over a dozen models and 20+ AI products, highlighting Google's leadership in AI innovation. Influential voices like demishassabis and philschmid provided insights and recaps, while the launch of Jules as a competitor to Codex/Devin was noted.
not much happened to end the year
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Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) is introduced as a data-efficient method to improve reasoning in LLMs using minimal training data with strategies like First-Correct Solutions (FCS) and Greedily Diverse Solutions (GDS). DeepSeek-V3, a 671B parameter MoE language model trained on 14.8 trillion tokens with FP8 mixed precision training, highlights advances in large-scale models and open-source LLMs. Predictions for AI in 2025 include growth in smaller models, multimodality, and challenges in open-source AI. The impact of AI on software development jobs suggests a need for higher intelligence and specialization as AI automates low-skilled tasks. Enhancements to CodeLLM improve coding assistance with features like in-place editing and streaming responses. Natural Language Reinforcement Learning (NLRL) offers better interpretability and richer feedback for AI planning and critique. AI hiring is growing rapidly with startups seeking strong engineers in ML and systems. New AI-powered tools such as Rivet, Buzee, and Konfig improve real-time applications, search, and SDK generation using technologies like Rust and V8 isolates.
Mini, Nemo, Turbo, Lite - Smol models go brrr (GPT4o-mini version)
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OpenAI launched the GPT-4o Mini, a cost-efficient small model priced at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, aiming to replace GPT-3.5 Turbo with enhanced intelligence but some performance limitations. DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-V2-0628, topping the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard and emphasizing their commitment to contributing to the AI ecosystem. Mistral AI and NVIDIA released the Mistral NeMo, a 12B parameter multilingual model with a record 128k token context window under an Apache 2.0 license, sparking debates on benchmarking accuracy against models like Meta Llama 8B. Research breakthroughs include the TextGrad framework for optimizing compound AI systems via textual feedback differentiation and the STORM system improving article writing by 25% through simulating diverse perspectives and addressing source bias. Developer tooling trends highlight LangChain's evolving context-aware reasoning applications and the Modular ecosystem's new official GPU support, including discussions on Mojo and Keras 3.0 integration.