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Alibaba released compact dense Qwen3-VL models at 4B and 8B sizes with FP8 options, supporting up to 1M context and open vocabulary detection, rivaling larger models like Qwen2.5-VL-72B. Ecosystem support includes MLX-VLM, LM Studio, vLLM, Kaggle models, and Ollama Cloud. In video AI, Arena added Sora 2 models leading in video benchmarks, with Higgsfield Enhancer improving video quality. Runway launched domain-specific workflow apps for creative tasks. Research on Representation Autoencoders for DiTs (RAE-DiT) shows improved diffusion model performance. On local training, NVIDIA DGX Spark enables strong local fine-tuning, while Nanochat by Karpathy offers a minimal stack for training and inference. Together AI introduced ATLAS, a speculative decoding method achieving up to 4× faster inference on DeepSeek-V3.1. These developments highlight advances in efficient model deployment, video AI, local fine-tuning, and inference speed optimization.
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.
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Google released Gemma 3n, a multimodal model for edge devices available in 2B and 4B parameter versions, with support across major frameworks like Transformers and Llama.cpp. Tencent open-sourced Hunyuan-A13B, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 80B total parameters and a 256K context window, optimized for tool calling and coding. Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], an open image AI model gaining rapid Hugging Face adoption. Inception AI Labs launched Mercury, the first commercial-scale diffusion LLM for chat. The FineWeb2 multilingual pre-training dataset paper was released, analyzing data quality impacts. The Qwen team released Qwen-VLo, a unified visual understanding and generation model. Kyutai Labs released a top-ranked open-source speech-to-text model running on Macs and iPhones. OpenAI introduced Deep Research API with o3/o4-mini models and open-sourced prompt rewriter methodology, integrated into LangChain and LangGraph. The open-source Gemini CLI gained over 30,000 GitHub stars as an AI terminal agent.
ChatGPT Codex, OpenAI's first cloud SWE agent
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OpenAI launched Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent powered by codex-1 (an optimized version of OpenAI o3) available in research preview for Pro, Enterprise, and Team ChatGPT users, featuring parallel task execution like refactoring and bug fixing. The Codex CLI was enhanced with quick sign-in and a new low-latency model, codex-mini. Gemma 3 is highlighted as the best open model runnable on a single GPU. Runway released the Gen-4 References API for style transfer in generation. Salesforce introduced BLIP3-o, a unified multimodal model family using diffusion transformers for CLIP image features. The Qwen 2.5 models (1.5B and 3B versions) were integrated into the PocketPal app with various chat templates. Marigold IID, a new state-of-the-art open-source depth estimation model, was released.
In research, DeepSeek shared insights on scaling and hardware for DeepSeek-V3. Google unveiled LightLab, a diffusion-based light source control in images. Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve uses Gemini 2.0 to discover new math and reduce costs without reinforcement learning. Omni-R1 studied audio's role in fine-tuning audio LLMs. Qwen proposed a parallel scaling law inspired by classifier-free guidance. Salesforce released Lumina-Next on the Qwen base, outperforming Janus-Pro. A study found LLM performance degrades in multi-turn conversations due to unreliability. J1 is incentivizing LLM-as-a-Judge thinking via reinforcement learning. A new Qwen study correlates question and strategy similarity to predict reasoning strategies.
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Qwen model family released quantized versions of Qwen3 models including 14B, 32B, and 235B parameters, with promising coding capabilities in Qwen3-235B. Microsoft launched Phi-4-reasoning, a 14B parameter model distilled from OpenAI's o3-mini, emphasizing supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, outperforming larger models in some benchmarks. Cohere's Command A leads SQL performance on Bird Bench. Google introduced the TRAJAN eval for video generation temporal consistency and updated the Gemini OpenAI compatibility layer. Inception Labs launched a diffusion LLM API claiming 5x speed improvements over autoregressive models. Community rankings show OpenAI's o3 model debuting strongly in web app-building tasks. Other releases include AllenAI's OLMo2 1B and additional Phi 4 variants. "Qwen3-235B shows promise for coding" and "Phi-4-reasoning tech report emphasizes SFT gains" highlight key advancements.
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nemotron-h nvidia-eagle-2.5 gpt-4o qwen2.5-vl-72b gemini-2.5-flash gemini-2.0-pro gemini-exp-1206 gemma-3 qwen2.5-32b deepseek-r1-zero-32b uni3c seedream-3.0 adobe-dragon kimina-prover qwen2.5-72b bitnet-b1.58-2b4t nvidia deepseek hugging-face alibaba bytedance adobe transformers model-optimization multimodality long-context reinforcement-learning torch-compile image-generation diffusion-models distributional-rewards model-efficiency model-training native-quantization sampling-techniques philschmid arankomatsuzaki osanseviero iScienceLuvr akhaliq
Nemotron-H model family introduces hybrid Mamba-Transformer models with up to 3x faster inference and variants including 8B, 56B, and a compressed 47B model. Nvidia Eagle 2.5 is a frontier VLM for long-context multimodal learning, matching GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-VL-72B on long-video understanding. Gemini 2.5 Flash shows improved dynamic thinking and cost-performance, outperforming previous Gemini versions. Gemma 3 now supports torch.compile for about 60% faster inference on consumer GPUs. SRPO using Qwen2.5-32B surpasses DeepSeek-R1-Zero-32B on benchmarks with reinforcement learning only. Alibaba's Uni3C unifies 3D-enhanced camera and human motion controls for video generation. Seedream 3.0 by ByteDance is a bilingual image generation model with high-resolution outputs up to 2K. Adobe DRAGON optimizes diffusion generative models with distributional rewards. Kimina-Prover Preview is an LLM trained with reinforcement learning from Qwen2.5-72B, achieving 80.7% pass@8192 on miniF2F. BitNet b1.58 2B4T is a native 1-bit LLM with 2B parameters trained on 4 trillion tokens, matching full-precision LLM performance with better efficiency. Antidistillation sampling counters unwanted model distillation by modifying reasoning traces from frontier models.
DeepSeek's Open Source Stack
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DeepSeek's Open Source Week was summarized by PySpur, highlighting multiple interesting releases. The Qwen QwQ-32B model was fine-tuned into START, excelling in PhD-level science QA and math benchmarks. Character-3, an omnimodal AI video generation model by Hedra Labs and Together AI, enables realistic animated content creation. Google DeepMind introduced the Gemini embedding model with an 8k context window, ranking #1 on MMTEB, alongside the Gemini 2.0 Code Executor supporting Python libraries and auto-fix features. Inception Labs' Mercury Coder is a diffusion-based code generation model offering faster token processing. OpenAI released GPT-4.5, their largest model yet but with less reasoning ability than some competitors. AI21 Labs launched Jamba Mini 1.6, noted for superior output speed compared to Gemini 2.0 Flash, GPT-4o mini, and Mistral Small 3. A new dataset of 1.9M scanned pages was released for OCR benchmarking, with Mistral OCR showing competitive but not top-tier document parsing performance compared to LLM/LVM-powered methods. "Cracked engineers are all you need."
LLaDA: Large Language Diffusion Models
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LLaDA (Large Language Diffusion Model) 8B is a breakthrough diffusion-based language model that rivals LLaMA 3 8B while training on 7x fewer tokens (2 trillion tokens) and using 0.13 million H800 GPU hours. It introduces a novel text generation approach by predicting uniformly masked tokens in a diffusion process, enabling multi-turn dialogue and instruction-following. Alongside, StepFun AI released two major models: Step-Video-T2V 30B, a text-to-video model generating up to 204 frames with high coherence and motion quality, and Step-Audio-Chat 132B, a voice-to-voice model. Additionally, challenging multimodal benchmarks like Scale AI's EnigmaEval and Cambridge's ZeroBench highlight current frontier models scoring zero, emphasizing the difficulty of these tasks. The community also noted the return of diffusion models in language modeling, a previously speculative architecture now scaled successfully.
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DeepSeek-V3, a 671 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model, surpasses Llama 3.1 405B and GPT-4o in coding and math benchmarks. OpenAI announced the upcoming release of GPT-5 on April 27, 2023. MiniMax-01 Coder mode in ai-gradio enables building a chess game in one shot. Meta research highlights trade-offs in scaling visual tokenizers. Google DeepMind improves diffusion model quality via inference-time scaling. The RA-DIT method fine-tunes LLMs and retrievers for better RAG responses. The U.S. proposes a three-tier export restriction system on AI chips and models, excluding countries like China and Russia. Security vulnerabilities in AI chatbots involving CSRF and prompt injection were revealed. Concerns about superintelligence and weapons-grade AI models were expressed. ai-gradio updates include NVIDIA NIM compatibility and new models like cosmos-nemotron-34b. LangChain integrates with Claude-3-haiku for AI agents with persistent memory. Triton Warp specialization optimizes GPU usage for matrix multiplication. Meta's fine-tuned Llama models, OpenBioLLM-8B and OpenBioLLM-70B, target personalized medicine and clinical trials.
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
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Google released a new paper on "Neural Memory" integrating persistent memory directly into transformer architectures at test time, showing promising long-context utilization. MiniMax-01 by @omarsar0 features a 4 million token context window with 456B parameters and 32 experts, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet. InternLM3-8B-Instruct is an open-source model trained on 4 trillion tokens with state-of-the-art results. Transformer² introduces self-adaptive LLMs that dynamically adjust weights for continuous adaptation. Advances in AI security highlight the need for agent authentication, prompt injection defenses, and zero-trust architectures. Tools like Micro Diffusion enable budget-friendly diffusion model training, while LeagueGraph and Agent Recipes support open-source social media agents.
Moondream 2025.1.9: Structured Text, Enhanced OCR, Gaze Detection in a 2B Model
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Moondream has released a new version that advances VRAM efficiency and adds structured output and gaze detection, marking a new frontier in vision model practicality. Discussions on Twitter highlighted advancements in reasoning models like OpenAI's o1, model distillation techniques, and new multimodal embedding models such as vdr-2b-multi-v1 and LLaVA-Mini, which significantly reduce computational costs. Research on GANs and decentralized diffusion models showed improved stability and performance. Development tools like MLX and vLLM received updates for better portability and developer experience, while frameworks like LangChain and Qdrant enable intelligent data workflows. Company updates include new roles and team expansions at GenmoAI. "Efficiency tricks are all you need."
Stripe lets Agents spend money with StripeAgentToolkit
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Stripe has pioneered an AI SDK specifically designed for agents that handle payments, integrating with models like gpt-4o to enable financial transactions and token-based charging. The AI developer tooling trend emphasizes better "AI-Computer Interfaces" for improved agent reliability, with tools like E2B and the
llms.txt documentation trend gaining traction, notably adopted by Anthropic. In AI model news, Gemini-Exp-1114 topped the Vision Leaderboard and improved in Math Arena, while discussions continue around model overfitting and the limits of scaling laws for AGI. OpenAI released a ChatGPT desktop app for macOS with integrations for VS Code, Xcode, and Terminal, enhancing developer workflows and pair programming. Anthropic introduced a prompt improver using chain-of-thought reasoning, and Meta AI shared top research from EMNLP2024 on image captioning, dialogue systems, and memory-efficient fine-tuning. Highlights from ICLR 2025 include diffusion-based illumination harmonization, open mixture-of-experts language models, and hyperbolic vision-language models. A new adaptive decoding method optimizes creativity and factuality per token. Tools like LlamaParse and RAGformation were also introduced for document parsing and retrieval-augmented generation. s{imple|table|calable} Consistency Models
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Model distillation significantly accelerates diffusion models, enabling near real-time image generation with only 1-4 sampling steps, as seen in BlinkShot and Flux Schnell. Research led by Yang Song introduced simplified continuous-time consistency models (sCMs), achieving under 10% FID difference in just 2 steps and scaling up to 1.5B parameters for higher quality. On AI hardware, Tesla is deploying a 50k H100 cluster potentially capable of completing GPT-4 training in under three weeks, while Cerebras Systems set a new inference speed record on Llama 3.1 70B with their wafer-scale AI chips. Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3.5 and its Turbo variant, and Cohere launched new multilingual models supporting 23 languages with state-of-the-art performance. LangChain also announced ecosystem updates.
a calm before the storm
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Anthropic is raising funds at a valuation up to $40 billion ahead of anticipated major releases. OpenAI launched new reasoning models o1 and o1-mini, with increased rate limits and a multilingual MMLU benchmark. Alibaba released the open-source Qwen2.5 model supporting 29+ languages, showing competitive performance to gpt-4 at lower cost. Microsoft and Blackrock plan to invest $30 billion in AI data centers, with Groq partnering with Aramco to build the world's largest AI inference center. Robotics advances include Disney Research and ETH Zurich's diffusion-based motion generation for robots and Pudu Robotics' semi-humanoid robot. Slack and Microsoft introduced AI-powered agents integrated into their platforms. Research highlights include long-context scaling for llama-2-70b using Dual Chunk Attention and KV cache quantization enabling 1 million token context on llama-7b models.
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Anthropic introduced a RAG technique called Contextual Retrieval that reduces retrieval failure rates by 67% using prompt caching. Meta is teasing multimodal Llama 3 ahead of Meta Connect. OpenAI is hiring for a multi-agent research team focusing on improved AI reasoning with their o1 models, which have sparked mixed reactions. DeepSeek 2.5 is noted as a cost-effective alternative to GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 sonnet. New models like 3DTopia-XL for 3D asset generation and CogVideoX for image-to-video conversion were highlighted. Techniques to boost reasoning by re-reading questions and combining retrieval with prompt caching were shared. Industry insights emphasize the necessity of AI adoption in enterprises and the disruption of traditional ML businesses. Tools like LangChainAI's LangGraph Templates and LlamaIndex's LlamaParse Premium enhance agentic applications and multimodal content extraction. Discussions on LLM evals and caching highlight production challenges and improvements. "Companies not allowing developers to use AI are unlikely to succeed" was a key sentiment.
a quiet weekend
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OpenAI released the new o1 model, leveraging reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought prompting to excel in reasoning benchmarks, achieving an IQ-like score of 120. Google DeepMind introduced DataGemma to reduce hallucinations by connecting LLMs with real-world data, and unveiled ALOHA and DemoStart for robot dexterity using diffusion methods. Adobe previewed its Firefly AI Video Model with text-to-video and generative extend features. Mistral launched the multimodal Pixtral 12B model, and Tencent presented the GameGen-O open-world video game generation model. Several research papers from Stanford, OpenAI, Microsoft, Mila, and Notre Dame focus on advanced reasoning, self-verification, and reflection tuning techniques. Experts like Terence Tao and George Hotz have shared mixed but optimistic views on o1's capabilities. Seed funding rounds include Supermaven ($12M) and 11x ($24M).
Summer of Code AI: $1.6b raised, 1 usable product
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Code + AI is emphasized as a key modality in AI engineering, highlighting productivity and verifiability benefits. Recent major funding rounds include Cognition AI raising $175M, Poolside raising $400M, Codeium AI raising $150M, and Magic raising $320M. Magic announced their LTM-2 model with a 100 million token context window, boasting efficiency improvements over Llama 3.1 405B by about 1000x cheaper in sequence-dimension algorithm and drastically lower memory requirements. Magic's stack is built from scratch with custom CUDA and no open-source foundations, partnered with Google Cloud and powered by NVIDIA H100 and GB200 GPUs, aiming to scale to tens of thousands of GPUs. Google DeepMind revealed updates to Gemini Advanced with customizable expert "Gems." Neural Game Engines like GameNGen can run DOOM in a diffusion model trained on 0.9B frames. The content also references LLM quantization research by Rohan Paul.
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OpenAI launched GPT-4o finetuning with a case study on Cosine. Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with 8k token output. Microsoft Phi team introduced Phi-3.5 in three variants: Mini (3.8B), MoE (16x3.8B), and Vision (4.2B), noted for sample efficiency. Meta released Llama 3.1 405B, deployable on Google Cloud Vertex AI, offering GPT-4 level capabilities. Qwen2-Math-72B achieved state-of-the-art math benchmark performance with a Gradio demo. Discussions included model comparisons like ViT vs CNN and Mamba architecture. Tools updates featured DSPy roadmap, Flux Schnell improving diffusion speed on M1 Max, and LangChain community events. Research highlights zero-shot DUP prompting for math reasoning and fine-tuning best practices. AI ethics covered California's AI Safety Bill SB 1047 and regulatory concerns from Yann LeCun. Commentary on AI engineer roles by Swyx. "Chat with PDF" feature now available for Box Enterprise Plus users.
Lilian Weng on Video Diffusion
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OpenAI expands with a launch in Japan, introduces a Batch API, and partners with Adobe to bring the Sora video model to Premiere Pro. Reka AI releases the Reka Core multimodal language model. WizardLM-2 is released showing impressive performance, and Llama 3 news is anticipated soon. Geoffrey Hinton highlights AI models exhibiting intuition, creativity, and analogy recognition beyond humans. The Devin AI model notably contributes to its own codebase. Opus demonstrates the ability to recognize its own generated outputs. Sam Altman warns startups about being steamrolled by OpenAI if they don't adapt quickly. Yann LeCun discusses AGI timelines, emphasizing it is inevitable but not imminent or solely from LLMs. Lilian Weng's blog on diffusion models for video generation highlights training-free adaptation as a breakthrough technique.
Gemini Pro and GPT4T Vision go GA on the same day by complete coincidence
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At Google Cloud Next, Gemini 1.5 Pro was released with a million-token context window, available in 180+ countries, featuring 9.5 hours of audio understanding, a new File API for nearly unlimited free uploads, and the Gecko-1b-256/768 embedding model. GPT-4 Turbo with Vision became generally available in the API with a major update improving reasoning capabilities. Meta Platforms plans to launch smaller versions of Llama 3 next week. The Orca 2.5 7B model using Direct Nash Optimization outperforms older GPT-4 versions in AlpacaEval. New releases include Functionary-V2.4 with enhanced function calling and code interpretation, and CosXL models for image editing. Research highlights include continuous U-Nets for diffusion models achieving up to 80% faster inference and a massive multilingual dataset with ~5.6 trillion word tokens. Creative applications include a no-code touch screen game made with Gemini 1.5 and AI-generated novel trailers.
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."
RIP Latent Diffusion, Hello Hourglass Diffusion
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Katherine Crowson from Stable Diffusion introduces a hierarchical pure transformer backbone for diffusion-based image generation that efficiently scales to megapixel resolutions with under 600 million parameters, improving upon the original ~900M parameter model. This architecture processes local and global image phenomena separately, enhancing efficiency and resolution without latent steps. Additionally, Meta's Self Rewarding LM paper has inspired lucidrains to begin an implementation. Discord summaries highlight GPT-4's robustness against quantification tricks, discussions on open-source GPT-0 alternatives, challenges in DPO training on limited VRAM with suggestions like QLoRA and rmsprop, and efforts to improve roleplay model consistency through fine-tuning and merging. Philosophical debates on AI sentience and GPT-4 customization for markdown and translation tasks were also noted.