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GPT 4.5 — Chonky Orion ships!
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OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview, highlighting its deep world knowledge, improved understanding of user intent, and a 128,000 token context window. It is noted for excelling in writing, creative tasks, image understanding, and data extraction but is not a reasoning model. Microsoft unveiled Phi-4 Multimodal and Phi-4 Mini, open-source models integrating text, vision, and speech/audio, with strong performance in math and coding tasks. Cohere released Command R7B Arabic, an open-weights model optimized for Arabic language capabilities targeting enterprises in the MENA region. The community is exploring the impact of larger models on creative writing, intent understanding, and world knowledge, with GPT-4.5 expected to be a basis for GPT-5.
Mistral Small 3 24B and Tulu 3 405B
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Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B parameter model optimized for local inference with low latency and 81% accuracy on MMLU, competing with Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen-2.5 32B, and GPT4o-mini. AI2 released Tülu 3 405B, a large finetuned model of Llama 3 using Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RVLR), competitive with DeepSeek v3. Sakana AI launched TinySwallow-1.5B, a Japanese language model using TAID for on-device use. Alibaba_Qwen released Qwen 2.5 Max, trained on 20 trillion tokens, with performance comparable to DeepSeek V3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro, and updated API pricing. These releases highlight advances in open models, efficient inference, and reinforcement learning techniques.
not much happened to end the year
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Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) is introduced as a data-efficient method to improve reasoning in LLMs using minimal training data with strategies like First-Correct Solutions (FCS) and Greedily Diverse Solutions (GDS). DeepSeek-V3, a 671B parameter MoE language model trained on 14.8 trillion tokens with FP8 mixed precision training, highlights advances in large-scale models and open-source LLMs. Predictions for AI in 2025 include growth in smaller models, multimodality, and challenges in open-source AI. The impact of AI on software development jobs suggests a need for higher intelligence and specialization as AI automates low-skilled tasks. Enhancements to CodeLLM improve coding assistance with features like in-place editing and streaming responses. Natural Language Reinforcement Learning (NLRL) offers better interpretability and richer feedback for AI planning and critique. AI hiring is growing rapidly with startups seeking strong engineers in ML and systems. New AI-powered tools such as Rivet, Buzee, and Konfig improve real-time applications, search, and SDK generation using technologies like Rust and V8 isolates.
not much happened today
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ChatGPT Search was launched by Sam Altman, who called it his favorite feature since ChatGPT's original launch, doubling his usage. Comparisons were made between ChatGPT Search and Perplexity with improvements noted in Perplexity's web navigation. Google introduced a "Grounding" feature in the Gemini API & AI Studio enabling Gemini models to access real-time web information. Despite Gemini's leaderboard performance, developer adoption lags behind OpenAI and Anthropic. SmolLM2, a new small, powerful on-device language model, outperforms Meta's Llama 3.2 1B. A Claude desktop app was released for Mac and Windows. Meta AI announced robotics advancements including Meta Sparsh, Meta Digit 360, and Meta Digit Plexus. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium, a 2B parameter model with a permissive license, was released. Insights on AGI development suggest initial inferiority but rapid improvement. Anthropic advocates for early targeted AI regulation. Discussions on ML specialization predict training will concentrate among few companies, while inference becomes commoditized. New AI tools include Suno AI Personas for music creation, PromptQL for natural language querying over data, and Agent S for desktop task automation. Humor was shared about Python environment upgrades.
Meta Llama 3 (8B, 70B)
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Meta partially released Llama 3 models including 8B and 70B variants, with a 400B variant still in training, touted as the first GPT-4 level open-source model. Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 API with model weights coming soon, showing competitive realism against Midjourney V6. Boston Dynamics unveiled an electric humanoid robot Atlas, and Microsoft introduced the VASA-1 model generating lifelike talking faces at 40fps on RTX 4090. Mistral AI, a European OpenAI rival, is seeking $5B funding with its Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 model achieving 100% accuracy on 64K context benchmarks. AI safety discussions include calls from former OpenAI board member Helen Toner for audits of top AI companies, and the Mormon Church released AI usage principles. New AI development tools include Ctrl-Adapter for diffusion models, Distilabel 1.0.0 for synthetic dataset pipelines, Data Bonsai for data cleaning with LLMs, and Dendron for building LLM agents with behavior trees. Memes highlight AI development humor and cultural references. The release of Llama 3 models features improved reasoning, a 128K token vocabulary, 8K token sequences, and grouped query attention.
Zero to GPT in 1 Year
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GPT-4 Turbo reclaimed the top leaderboard spot with significant improvements in coding, multilingual, and English-only tasks, now rolled out in paid ChatGPT. Despite this, Claude Opus remains superior in creativity and intelligence. Mistral AI released powerful open-source models like Mixtral-8x22B and Zephyr 141B suited for fine-tuning. LangChain enhanced tool integration across models, and Hugging Face introduced Transformer.js for running transformers in browsers. Medical domain-focused Medical mT5 was shared as an open-source multilingual text-to-text model. The community also highlighted research on LLMs as regressors and shared practical advice on OCR/PDF data modeling from Vik Paruchuri's journey.