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Gemini 2.5 Pro (06-05) launched at AI Engineer World's Fair
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At the second day of AIE, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro reclaimed the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard with a score of 1470 and a +24 Elo increase, showing improvements in coding, reasoning, and math. Qwen3 released state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models, with Qwen3-Embedding-8B topping the MTEB multilingual leaderboard. OpenThinker3-7B emerged as the top open reasoning model trained on the OpenThoughts3-1.2M dataset, outperforming previous models by 33%. LightOn introduced FastPlaid, achieving up to a 554% speedup for late-interaction models. Morph Labs hired Christian Szegedy as Chief Scientist to lead Verified Superintelligence development. The AI Engineer World's Fair featured a fireside chat with Greg Brockman and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, highlighting the return of basic research and engineering best practices.
not much happened today; New email provider for AINews
gpt-4.1 gpt-4o gpt-4o-mini gemini-2.5-flash seaweed-7b claude embed-4 grok smol-ai resend openai google bytedance anthropic cohere x-ai email-deliverability model-releases reasoning video-generation multimodality embedding-models agentic-workflows document-processing function-calling tool-use ai-coding adcock_brett swyx jerryjliu0 alexalbert omarsar0
Smol AI is migrating its AI news email service to Resend to improve deliverability and enable new features like personalizable AI news and a "Hacker News of AI." Recent AI model updates include OpenAI's API-only GPT-4.1, Google Gemini 2.5 Flash reasoning model, ByteDance Seaweed 7B-param video AI, Anthropic Claude's values system, Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embedding model, and xAI Grok updates with Memory and Studio features. Discussions also cover agentic workflows for document automation and AI coding patterns.
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."
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."
nothing much happened today
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OpenAI's o1 model faces skepticism about open-source replication due to its extreme restrictions and unique training advances like RL on CoT. ChatGPT-4o shows significant performance improvements across benchmarks. Llama-3.1-405b fp8 and bf16 versions perform similarly with cost benefits for fp8. A new open-source benchmark "Humanity's Last Exam" offers $500K in prizes to challenge LLMs. Model merging benefits from neural network sparsity and linear mode connectivity. Embedding-based toxic prompt detection achieves high accuracy with low compute. InstantDrag enables fast, optimization-free drag-based image editing. LangChain v0.3 releases with improved dependency management. Automated code review tool CodeRabbit adapts to team coding styles. Visual search advances integrate multimodal data for better product search. Experts predict AI will be default software by 2030.
Multi-modal, Multi-Aspect, Multi-Form-Factor AI
gpt-4 idefics-2-8b mistral-instruct apple-mlx gpt-5 reka-ai cohere google rewind apple mistral-ai microsoft paypal multimodality foundation-models embedding-models gpu-performance model-comparison enterprise-data open-source performance-optimization job-impact agi-criticism technical-report arthur-mensch dan-schulman chris-bishop
Between April 12-15, Reka Core launched a new GPT4-class multimodal foundation model with a detailed technical report described as "full Shazeer." Cohere Compass introduced a foundation embedding model for indexing and searching multi-aspect enterprise data like emails and invoices. The open-source IDEFICS 2-8B model continues Google's Flamingo multimodal model reproduction. Rewind pivoted to a multi-platform app called Limitless, moving away from spyware. Reddit discussions highlighted Apple MLX outperforming Ollama and Mistral Instruct on M2 Ultra GPUs, GPU choices for LLMs and Stable Diffusion, and AI-human comparisons by Microsoft Research's Chris Bishop. Former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman predicted GPT-5 will drastically reduce job scopes by 80%. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch criticized the obsession with AGI as "creating God."
12/29/2023: TinyLlama on the way
tinyllama-1.1b openai hugging-face gpu-optimization model-deployment discord-bots embedding-models inference-server hardware-compatibility model-performance beta-testing autogen context-window
The Nous/Axolotl community is pretraining a 1.1B model on 3 trillion tokens, showing promising results on HellaSwag for a small 1B model. The LM Studio Discord discussions cover extensive GPU-related issues, Discord bot integration with the OpenAI API, and hardware limitations affecting model usage. Community members also discuss server hosting for embeddings and LLMs, propose updates for Discord channels to improve model development collaboration, and address a gibberish problem in beta releases. The Autogen tool's installation and operational challenges are also clarified by users.