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Weights and Biases announced a $1.7 billion acquisition by CoreWeave ahead of CoreWeave's IPO. CohereForAI released the Aya Vision models (8B and 32B parameters) supporting 23 languages, outperforming larger models like Llama-3.2 90B Vision and Molmo 72B. Microsoft introduced Phi-4-Mini (3.8B parameters) and Phi-4-Multimodal models, excelling in math, coding, and multimodal benchmarks. CogView4, a 6B parameter text-to-image model with 2048x2048 resolution and Apache 2.0 license, was released. Alibaba launched Wan 2.1, an open-source video generation model with 720p output and 16 fps generation. Google announced new AI features for Pixel devices including Scam Detection and Gemini integrations. LlamaCloud reached General Availability and raised $19M Series A funding, serving over 100 Fortune 500 companies. Weaviate launched the Query Agent, the first of three Weaviate Agents.
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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OpenAI announced plans for GPT-4.5 (Orion) and GPT-5, with GPT-5 integrating the o3 model and offering unlimited chat access in the free tier. DeepSeek R1 Distilled Qwen 1.5B outperforms OpenAI's o1-preview on math benchmarks, while ModernBERT 0.3b surpasses Qwen 0.5b at MMLU without fine-tuning. Mistral and Perplexity adopt Cerebras hardware for 10x performance gains. OpenAI's o3 model won a gold medal at the 2024 International Olympiad in Informatics. Partnerships include Qwen with Groq. Significant RLHF activity is noted in Nigeria and the global south, and Bytedance is expected to rise in AI prominence soon. "GPT5 is all you need."
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Vertical SaaS agents are gaining rapid consensus as the future of AI applications, highlighted by Decagon's $100m funding and Sierra's $4b round. OpenAI alumni are actively raising venture capital and forming new startups, intensifying competition in the AI market. Demis Hassabis celebrated the Nobel Prize recognition for AlphaFold2, a breakthrough in protein structure prediction. Advances in AI models include techniques like LoRA projectors and annealing on high-quality data, while discussions emphasize the need for high-bandwidth sensory inputs beyond language for common sense learning. New methods like LoLCATs aim to optimize transformer models such as Llama and Mistral for efficiency. Ethical concerns about AI agents performing harmful tasks remain under investigation. The AI community continues to explore model evaluation challenges and optimization frameworks like LPZero for neural architecture search.