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Reasoning Price War 2: Mistral Magistral + o3's 80% price cut + o3-pro
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OpenAI announced an 80% price cut for its o3 model, making it competitively priced with GPT-4.1 and rivaling Anthropic's Claude 4 Sonnet and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. Alongside, o3-pro was released as a more powerful and reliable variant, though early benchmarks showed mixed performance relative to cost. Mistral AI launched its Magistral reasoning models, including an open-source 24B parameter version optimized for efficient deployment on consumer GPUs. The price reduction and new model releases signal intensified competition in reasoning-focused large language models, with notable improvements in token efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
not much happened today
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AI21 Labs launched Jamba 1.6, touted as the best open model for private enterprise deployment, outperforming Cohere, Mistral, and Llama on benchmarks like Arena Hard. Mistral AI released a state-of-the-art multimodal OCR model with multilingual and structured output capabilities, available for on-prem deployment. Alibaba Qwen introduced QwQ-32B, an open-weight reasoning model with 32B parameters and cost-effective usage, showing competitive benchmark scores. OpenAI released o1 and o3-mini models with advanced API features including streaming and function calling. AMD unveiled Instella, open-source 3B parameter language models trained on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, competing with Llama-3.2-3B and others. Alibaba also released Babel, open multilingual LLMs performing comparably to GPT-4o. Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, enhancing reasoning and prompt engineering capabilities.
lots of small launches
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GPT-4o Advanced Voice Preview is now available for free ChatGPT users with enhanced daily limits for Plus and Pro users. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has achieved the top rank in WebDev Arena with improved token efficiency. DeepSeek-R1 with 671B parameters benefits from the Together Inference platform optimizing NVIDIA Blackwell GPU usage, alongside the open-source DeepGEMM CUDA library delivering up to 2.7x speedups on Hopper GPUs. Perplexity launched a new Voice Mode and a Deep Research API. The upcoming Grok 3 API will support a 1M token context window. Several companies including Elicit, Amazon, Anthropic, Cloudflare, FLORA, Elevenlabs, and Inception Labs announced new funding rounds, product launches, and model releases.
not much happened today
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Huawei chips are highlighted in a diverse AI news roundup covering NVIDIA's stock rebound, new open music foundation models like Local Suno, and competitive AI models such as Qwen 2.5 Max and Deepseek V3. The release of DeepSeek Janus Pro, a multimodal LLM with image generation capabilities, and advancements in reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought reasoning are noted. Discussions include GPU rebranding with NVIDIA's H6400 GPUs, data center innovations, and enterprise AI applications like crypto APIs in hedge funds. "Deepseek R1's capabilities" and "Qwen 2.5 models added to applications" are key highlights.
DeepSeek #1 on US App Store, Nvidia stock tanks -17%
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DeepSeek has made a significant cultural impact by hitting mainstream news unexpectedly in 2025. The DeepSeek-R1 model features a massive 671B parameter MoE architecture and demonstrates chain-of-thought (CoT) capabilities comparable to OpenAI's o1 at a lower cost. The DeepSeek V3 model trains a 236B parameter model 42% faster than its predecessor using fp8 precision. The Qwen2.5 multimodal models support images and videos with sizes ranging from 3B to 72B parameters, featuring strong vision and agentic capabilities. LangChain and LangGraph integration enable AI chatbots with memory and tool use, including applications like the DeFi Agent. Discussions highlight NVIDIA's role in hardware acceleration, with concerns about stock drops due to DeepSeek's efficiency and market fears. The compute demand is expected to rise despite efficiency gains, driven by inference scaling and MoE design improvements.
not much happened today
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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.
DeepSeek v3: 671B finegrained MoE trained for $5.5m USD of compute on 15T tokens
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DeepSeek-V3 has launched with 671B MoE parameters and trained on 14.8T tokens, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-sonnet in benchmarks. It was trained with only 2.788M H800 GPU hours, significantly less than Llama-3's 30.8M GPU-hours, showcasing major compute efficiency and cost reduction. The model is open-source and deployed via Hugging Face with API support. Innovations include native FP8 mixed precision training, Multi-Head Latent Attention scaling, distillation from synthetic reasoning data, pruning and healing for MoEs with up to 256 experts, and a new multi-token prediction objective enabling lookahead token planning. Research highlights also cover the OREO method and Natural Language Reinforcement Learning (NLRL) for multi-step reasoning and agent control.
Pixtral Large (124B) beats Llama 3.2 90B with updated Mistral Large 24.11
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Mistral has updated its Pixtral Large vision encoder to 1B parameters and released an update to the 123B parameter Mistral Large 24.11 model, though the update lacks major new features. Pixtral Large outperforms Llama 3.2 90B on multimodal benchmarks despite having a smaller vision adapter. Mistral's Le Chat chatbot received comprehensive feature updates, reflecting a company focus on product and research balance as noted by Arthur Mensch. SambaNova sponsors inference with their RDUs offering faster AI model processing than GPUs. On Reddit, vLLM shows strong concurrency performance on an RTX 3090 GPU, with quantization challenges noted in FP8 kv-cache but better results using llama.cpp with Q8 kv-cache. Users discuss performance trade-offs between vLLM, exllamav2, and TabbyAPI for different model sizes and batching strategies.
SciCode: HumanEval gets a STEM PhD upgrade
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PhD-level benchmarks highlight the difficulty of coding scientific problems for LLMs, with GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet scoring under 5% on the new SciCode benchmark. Anthropic doubled the max output token limit for Claude 3.5 Sonnet to 8192 tokens. The Q-GaLore method enables training LLaMA-7B on a single 16GB GPU. The Mosaic compiler now generates efficient code for NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The Dolphin 2.9.3-Yi-1.5-34B-32k-GGUF model on Hugging Face has over 111k downloads. Llama 3 shows strong performance, achieving 90% zero-shot accuracy on the MATH dataset. Discussions continue on the limitations and forms of synthetic data for model training.
We Solved Hallucinations
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Reddit's URL structure causes link errors in AI-generated summaries, especially with NSFW content affecting models like Claude and GPT-4. The team fixed this glitch while still leveraging LLMs for summarizing Reddit content. GPT-2 training costs have dramatically dropped to ~$672 using H100 GPUs and software improvements like CUDA and FlashAttention. FlashAttention-3 was released, achieving up to 740 TFLOPS on H100 GPUs, with FP8 nearing 1.2 PFLOPS, developed collaboratively by Meta, NVIDIA, Princeton, and Colfax. Hopper GPUs enable major speedups with new hardware features. Synthetic data may not improve vision tasks, as shown in recent research. The Avocado360 benchmark evaluates vision-language models' ability to detect avocados in images. Lynx, a hallucination detection model for LLMs, was introduced for real-world healthcare and fintech applications, trained by Patronus AI on Databricks Mosaic AI using Composer.
GPT-4o: the new SOTA-EVERYTHING Frontier model (GPT4T version)
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OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a frontier model supporting real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text, now free for all ChatGPT users with enhanced coding capabilities and upcoming advanced voice and video features. Discussions cover open-source LLMs like Llama 3, fine-tuning techniques including knowledge distillation for GPT-3.5, and hardware optimization strategies such as quantization. Emerging architectures include multimodal integrations with ChatGPT voice and Open Interpreter API, Mixture of Experts models combining autoregressive and diffusion approaches, and novel designs like the YOCO architecture and ThunderKittens DSL for efficient GPU use. Research advances in efficient attention methods like Conv-Basis using FFT and model scaling techniques such as depth upscaling were also highlighted.
Quis promptum ipso promptiet?
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Anthropic released upgrades to their Workbench Console, introducing new prompt engineering features like chain-of-thought reasoning and prompt generators that significantly reduce development time, exemplified by their customer Zoominfo. OpenAI teased a "magic" new development coming soon, speculated to be a new LLM replacing GPT-3.5 in the free tier or a search competitor. The open-source community highlighted Llama 3 70B as "game changing" with new quantized weights for Llama 3 120B and CUDA graph support for llama.cpp improving GPU performance. Neuralink demonstrated a thought-controlled mouse, sparking interest in modeling consciousness from brain signals. The ICLR 2024 conference is being held in Asia for the first time, generating excitement.
World_sim.exe
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NVIDIA announced Project GR00T, a foundation model for humanoid robot learning using multimodal instructions, built on their tech stack including Isaac Lab, OSMO, and Jetson Thor. They revealed the DGX Grace-Blackwell GB200 with over 1 exaflop compute, capable of training GPT-4 1.8T parameters in 90 days on 2000 Blackwells. Jensen Huang confirmed GPT-4 has 1.8 trillion parameters. The new GB200 GPU supports float4/6 precision with ~3 bits per parameter and achieves 40,000 TFLOPs on fp4 with 2x sparsity.
Open source highlights include the release of Grok-1, a 340B parameter model, and Stability AI's SV3D, an open-source text-to-video generation solution. Nous Research collaborated on implementing Steering Vectors in Llama.CPP.
In Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a new 5.5-hour tutorial builds a pipeline using open-source HF models, and LangChain released a video on query routing and announced integration with NVIDIA NIM for GPU-optimized LLM inference.
Prominent opinions include Yann LeCun distinguishing language from other cognitive abilities, Sam Altman predicting AGI arrival in 6 years with a leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 comparable to GPT-3 to GPT-4, and discussions on the philosophical status of LLMs like Claude. There is also advice against training models from scratch for most companies.
CodeLLama 70B beats GPT4 on HumanEval
codellama miqu mistral-medium llama-2-70b aphrodite-engine mixtral flatdolphinmaid noromaid rpcal chatml mistral-7b activation-beacon eagle-7b rwkv-v5 openhermes2.5 nous-hermes-2-mixtral-8x7b-dpo imp-v1-3b bakllava moondream qwen-vl meta-ai-fair ollama nous-research mistral-ai hugging-face ai-ethics alignment gpu-optimization direct-prompt-optimization fine-tuning cuda-programming optimizer-technology quantization multimodality context-length dense-retrieval retrieval-augmented-generation multilinguality model-performance open-source code-generation classification vision
Meta AI surprised the community with the release of CodeLlama, an open-source model now available on platforms like Ollama and MLX for local use. The Miqu model sparked debate over its origins, possibly linked to Mistral Medium or a fine-tuned Llama-2-70b, alongside discussions on AI ethics and alignment risks. The Aphrodite engine showed strong performance on A6000 GPUs with specific configurations. Role-playing AI models such as Mixtral and Flatdolphinmaid faced challenges with repetitiveness, while Noromaid and Rpcal performed better, with ChatML and DPO recommended for improved responses. Learning resources like fast.ai's course were highlighted for ML/DL beginners, and fine-tuning techniques with optimizers like Paged 8bit lion and adafactor were discussed.
At Nous Research AI, the Activation Beacon project introduced a method for unlimited context length in LLMs using "global state" tokens, potentially transforming retrieval-augmented models. The Eagle-7B model, based on RWKV-v5, outperformed Mistral in benchmarks with efficiency and multilingual capabilities. OpenHermes2.5 was recommended for consumer hardware due to its quantization methods. Multimodal and domain-specific models like IMP v1-3b, Bakllava, Moondream, and Qwen-vl were explored for classification and vision-language tasks. The community emphasized centralizing AI resources for collaborative research.
1/17/2024: Help crowdsource function calling datasets
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LM Studio updated its FAQ clarifying its closed-source status and perpetual freeness for personal use with no data collection. The new beta release includes fixes and hints at upcoming 2-bit quantization support. For gaming, models like Dolphin 2.7 Mixtral 8x7B, MegaDolphin, and Dolphin 2.6 Mistral 7B DPO with Q4_K_M quantization were recommended. Discussions highlighted that single powerful GPUs outperform multi-GPU setups due to bottlenecks, with older GPUs like Tesla P40 being cost-effective. Microsoft's AutoGen Studio was introduced but has issues and requires API fees for open-source models. Linux users are advised to use llama.cpp over LM Studio due to lack of headless mode. Additional tools like LLMFarm for iOS and various Hugging Face repositories were also mentioned. "LM Studio must be running to use the local inference server as there is no headless mode available" and "matching model size to GPU memory is key for performance" were notable points.
1/4/2024: Jeff Bezos backs Perplexity's $520m Series B.
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Perplexity announced their Series B funding round with notable investor Jeff Bezos, who previously invested in Google 25 years ago. Anthropic is raising $750 million, projecting at least $850 million in annualized revenue next year and implementing "brutal" changes to their Terms of Service. Discussions in Nous Research AI Discord cover topics such as document recall limits from gigabytes of data, RNN memory and compute trade-offs, synthetic datasets, and benchmarking of models like WizardCoder-33B-V1.1, MobileLLaMA-1.4B-Base, ShearedLLaMA, and TinyLLaMA. Other highlights include UnsLOTH optimizations for multi-GPU systems, AI rap voice models, context-extending code, and architectural innovations like applying Detectron/ViT backbones to LLMs, sliding window attention in Mistral, and parallelizing Mixtral 8x7b with FSDP and HF Accelerate.
12/31/2023: Happy New Year
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LM Studio community discussions highlight variations and optimizations in Dolphin and Mistral 7b models, focusing on hardware-software configurations and GPU vRAM impact on processing speed. Challenges with Mixtral model deployment on local machines and workarounds for downloading models from HuggingFace in restricted regions were addressed. Users explored enhancing AI's emotional intelligence and personalities through extended prompts, referencing research on emotional stimuli in large language models. The community also discussed hardware setups for budget AI compute servers, integration issues with ChromaDB and Autogen, and shared positive feedback on LM Studio's usability and UI. Celebrations for the New Year added a social touch to the guild interactions.
12/29/2023: TinyLlama on the way
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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.
12/27/2023: NYT vs OpenAI
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The LM Studio Discord community extensively discussed model performance comparisons, notably between Phi2 by Microsoft Research and OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7b, with focus on U.S. history knowledge and fine-tuning for improved accuracy. Technical challenges around LLM API usage, conversation history maintenance, and GPU optimization for inference speed were addressed. Hardware discussions covered DDR4 vs DDR5, multi-GPU setups, and potential of Apple M1/M3 and AMD AI CPUs for AI workloads. The community also announced the ChromaDB Plugin v3.0.2 release enabling image search in vector databases. Users shared practical tips on running multiple LM Studio instances and optimizing resource usage.
12/20/2023: Project Obsidian - Multimodal Mistral 7B from Nous
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Project Obsidian is a multimodal model being trained publicly, tracked by Teknium on the Nous Discord. Discussions include 4M: Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling and Reason.dev, a TypeScript framework for LLM applications. The OpenAI Discord community discussed hardware specs for running TensorFlow JS for image detection, security API ideas for filtering inappropriate images, and concerns about racial and cultural bias in AI, especially in facial recognition and healthcare. Challenges with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in word puzzle games were noted, along with GPU recommendations prioritizing VRAM for AI inference. Users also debated GPT-4's vision capabilities, limitations of DALL·E 3, platform access issues, and prompting strategies for better outputs.
12/10/2023: not much happened today
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Nous Research AI Discord community discussed attending NeurIPS and organizing future AI events in Australia. Highlights include interest in open-source and decentralized AI projects, with Richard Blythman seeking co-founders. Users shared projects like Photo GPT AI and introduced StableLM Zephyr 3B. The Mixtral model, based on Mistral, sparked debate on performance and GPU requirements, with comparisons to GPT-3.5 and potential competitiveness with GPT-4 after fine-tuning. Tools like Tensorboard, Wandb, and Llamahub were noted for fine-tuning and evaluation. Discussions covered Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures, fine-tuning with limited data, and inference optimization strategies for ChatGPT. Memes and community interactions referenced AI figures like Andrej Karpathy and Yann LeCun. The community also shared resources such as GitHub links and YouTube videos related to these models and tools.