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xAI Grok 4.1: #1 in Text Arena, #1 in EQ-bench, and better Creative Writing
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xAI launched Grok 4.1, achieving a #1 rank on the LM Arena Text Leaderboard with an Elo score of 1483, showing improvements in creative writing and anti-hallucination. OpenAI's GPT-5.1 "Thinking" demonstrates efficiency gains with ~60% less "thinking" on easy queries and strong ARC-AGI performance. Google DeepMind released WeatherNext 2, an ensemble generative model that is 8× faster and more accurate for global weather forecasts, integrated into multiple Google products. Sakana AI raised ¥20B ($135M) in Series B funding at a $2.63B valuation to focus on efficient AI for resource-constrained enterprise applications in Japan. New evaluations highlight tradeoffs between hallucination and knowledge accuracy across models including Claude 4.1 Opus and Anthropic models.
not much happened today
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Alibaba announced the release of Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, an open agentic code model with 480B parameters and 256K context length, praised for rapid development and strong coding performance. Benchmark claims of 41.8% on ARC-AGI-1 faced skepticism from Fran ois Chollet and others due to reproducibility issues. The model quickly integrated into ecosystems like vLLM, Dynamic GGUFs, and OpenRouterAI. The White House unveiled a new AI Action Plan emphasizing Innovation, Infrastructure, and International Diplomacy, linking AI leadership to national security and prioritizing compute access for the Department of Defense. The plan sparked debate on open vs. closed-source AI, with calls from Clement Delangue to embrace open science to maintain US AI competitiveness.
Execuhires Round 2: Scale-Meta, Lamini-AMD, and Instacart-OpenAI
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Meta hires Scale AI's Alexandr Wang to lead its new "Superintelligence" division following a $15 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale. Lamini's Sharon Zhou joins AMD as VP of AI under Lisa Su, while Instacart's Fidji Simo becomes CEO of Apps at OpenAI under Sama. Meta offers over $10 million/year compensation packages to top researchers, successfully recruiting Jack Rae from Gemini. OpenAI releases o3-pro model to ChatGPT Pro users and API, outperforming o3 and setting new benchmarks like Extended NYT Connections and SnakeBench. Despite being slower than o1-pro, o3-pro excels in reasoning and complex problem-solving. OpenAI cuts o3 pricing by 80%, making it cheaper than GPT-4o and pressuring competitors like Google and Anthropic to lower prices. Users can now fine-tune the GPT-4.1 family using direct preference optimization (DPO) for subjective tasks.