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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.
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.