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Tencent's Hunyuan-Turbos has risen to #8 on the LMArena leaderboard, showing strong performance across major categories and significant improvement since February. The Qwen3 model family, especially the Qwen3 235B-A22B (Reasoning) model, is noted for its intelligence and efficient parameter usage. OpenAI introduced HealthBench, a new health evaluation benchmark developed with input from over 250 physicians, where models like o3, GPT-4.1 nano, and Grok 3 showed strong results. ByteDance released Seed1.5-VL, a vision-language model with a 532M-parameter vision encoder and a 20B active parameter MoE LLM, achieving state-of-the-art results on 38 public benchmarks. In vision-language, Kling 2.0 leads image-to-video generation, and Gemini 2.5 Pro excels in video understanding with advanced multimodal capabilities. Meta's Vision-Language-Action framework and updates on VLMs for 2025 were also highlighted.
Qwen 3: 0.6B to 235B MoE full+base models that beat R1 and o1
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Qwen 3 has been released by Alibaba featuring a range of models including two MoE variants, Qwen3-235B-A22B and Qwen3-30B-A3B, which demonstrate competitive performance against top models like DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro. The models introduce an "enable_thinking=True" mode with advanced soft switching for inference scaling. The release is notable for its Apache 2.0 license and broad inference platform support including MCP. The dataset improvements and multi-stage RL post-training contribute to performance gains. Meanwhile, Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google DeepMind shows strong coding and long-context reasoning capabilities, and DeepSeek R2 is anticipated soon. Twitter discussions highlight Qwen3's finegrained MoE architecture, large context window, and multi-agent system applications.
Cognition's DeepWiki, a free encyclopedia of all GitHub repos
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Silas Alberti of Cognition announced DeepWiki, a free encyclopedia of all GitHub repos providing Wikipedia-like descriptions and Devin-backed chatbots for public repos. Meta released Perception Encoders (PE) with A2.0 license, outperforming InternVL3 and Qwen2.5VL on vision tasks. Alibaba launched the Qwen Chat App for iOS and Android. Hugging Face integrated the Dia 1.6B SoTA text-to-speech model via FAL. OpenAI expanded deep research usage with a lightweight version powered by o4-mini model, now available to free users. Perplexity AI updated their model selector with Grok 3 Beta, o4-mini, and support for models like gemini 2.5 pro, claude 3.7, and gpt-4.1. vLLM project introduced OpenRLHF framework for reinforcement learning with human feedback. Surya OCR alpha model supports 90+ languages and LaTeX. MegaParse open-source library was introduced for LLM-ready data formats.
Grok 3 & 3-mini now API Available
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Grok 3 API is now available, including a smaller version called Grok 3 mini, which offers competitive pricing and full reasoning traces. OpenAI released a practical guide for building AI agents, while LlamaIndex supports the Agent2Agent protocol for multi-agent communication. Codex CLI is gaining traction with new features and competition from Aider and Claude Code. GoogleDeepMind launched Gemini 2.5 Flash, a hybrid reasoning model topping the Chatbot Arena leaderboard. OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models show emergent behaviors from large-scale reinforcement learning. EpochAIResearch updated its methodology, removing Maverick from high FLOP models as Llama 4 Maverick training compute drops. GoodfireAI announced a $50M Series A for its Ember neural programming platform. Mechanize was founded to build virtual work environments and automation benchmarks. GoogleDeepMind's Quantisation Aware Training for Gemma 3 models reduces model size significantly, with open source checkpoints available.
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The AI news recap highlights independent evaluations showing Grok-3 outperforming models like GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet on reasoning benchmarks, while Grok-3 mini excels in reasoning tasks. Research on reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning reveals potential improvements for small reasoning models but also notes instability in reported gains. Benchmark results suggest Quasar Alpha and Optimus Alpha may be versions of GPT-4.1. Vision and multimodal models like Kaleidoscope, supporting 18 languages, and InternVL3, built on InternViT and Qwen2.5VL, demonstrate advances in multilingual vision and reasoning. The fusion model TransMamba combines transformer precision with speed via SSM mechanisms. Alibaba's FantasyTalking generates realistic talking portraits. Agent-focused events at CMU and tools like FilmAgent AI for virtual film production and BrowseComp benchmark for browsing agents were announced. The coding assistant Augment supports multiple IDEs with code analysis and suggestions. Discussions also covered Google’s new agent-to-agent protocol concept.
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OpenAI teased a Memory update in ChatGPT with limited technical details. Evidence suggests upcoming releases of o3 and o4-mini models, alongside a press leak about GPT-4.1. X.ai launched the Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini APIs, confirmed as o1 level models. Discussions compared Google's TPUv7 with Nvidia's GB200, highlighting TPUv7's specs like 4,614 TFLOP/s FP8 performance, 192 GB HBM, and 1.2 Tbps ICI bandwidth. TPUv7 may have pivoted from training to inference chip use. Key AI events include Google Cloud Next 2025 and Samsung's Gemini-powered Ballie robot. The community is invited to participate in the AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 and the 2025 State of AI Engineering survey.
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GPT-4.5 sparked mixed reactions on Twitter, with @karpathy noting users preferred GPT-4 in a poll despite his personal favor for GPT-4.5's creativity and humor. Critics like @abacaj highlighted GPT-4.5's slowness and questioned its practical value and pricing compared to other models. Performance-wise, GPT-4.5 ranks above GPT-4o but below o1 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, with Claude 3.7 outperforming it on many tasks yet GPT-4.5 praised for its humor and "vibes." Speculation about GPT-4.5's size suggests around 5 trillion parameters. Discussions also touched on pricing disparities, with Perplexity Deep Research at $20/month versus ChatGPT at $200/month. The emotional intelligence and humor of models like Claude 3.7 were also noted.
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.
AI Engineer Summit Day 1
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The AIE Summit in NYC highlighted key talks including Grace Isford's Trends Keynote, Neo4j/Pfizer's presentation, and OpenAI's first definition of Agents. Speakers announced $930 million in funding. On AI Twitter, discussions focused on Grok-3 and o3-mini models, with debates on performance and benchmarking, including Grok-3's record compute scale of 4e26 to 5e26 FLOP. The o3-mini model uncovered a critical CUDA kernel bug in Sakana AI's code. DeepSeek-R1 was promoted as an open-source alternative with notable training batch sizes. Additionally, Alibaba announced the Qwen 2.5-VL model release.
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Grok-3, a new family of LLMs from xAI using 200,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs for advanced reasoning, outperforms models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI on math, science, and coding benchmarks. DeepSeek-R1 from ByteDance Research achieves top accuracy on the challenging SuperGPQA dataset. SigLIP 2 from GoogleDeepMind improves semantic understanding and OCR with flexible resolutions and multilingual capabilities, available on HuggingFace. OpenAI's o3-mini-high ranks #1 in coding and math prompts. Perplexity's R1 1776, a post-trained version of DeepSeek R1, is available on Ollama. The Llamba family distills Llama-3.x into efficient recurrent models with higher throughput. AlphaMaze combines DeepSeek R1 with GRPO for visual reasoning on ARC-AGI puzzles. Audiobox Aesthetics from Meta AI offers unified quality assessment for audio. The community notes that Grok 3's compute increase yields only modest performance gains.
X.ai Grok 3 and Mira Murati's Thinking Machines
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Grok 3 has launched with mixed opinions but strong benchmark performance, notably outperforming models like Gemini 2 Pro and GPT-4o. The Grok-3 mini variant shows competitive and sometimes superior capabilities, especially in reasoning and coding, with reinforcement learning playing a key role. Mira Murati has publicly shared her post-OpenAI plan, founding the frontier lab Thinking Machines, focusing on collaborative, personalizable AI, multimodality, and empirical safety and alignment research, reminiscent of Anthropic's approach.
Llama-3-70b is GPT-4-level Open Model
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Meta has released Llama 3, their most capable open large language model with 8B and 70B parameter versions supporting 8K context length and outperforming previous models including Llama 2 and Mistral 7B. Groq serves the Llama 3 70B model at 500-800 tokens/second, making it the fastest GPT-4-level token source. Discussions highlight AI scaling challenges with Elon Musk stating that training Grok 3 will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, and AWS planning to acquire 20,000 B200 GPUs for a 27 trillion parameter model. Microsoft unveiled VASA-1 for lifelike talking face generation, while Stable Diffusion 3 and its extensions received mixed impressions. Concerns about AI energy usage and political bias in AI were also discussed.