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DeepSeek R1 v2 model released with availability on Hugging Face and inference partners. The Gemma model family continues prolific development including PaliGemma 2, Gemma 3, and others. Claude 4 and its variants like Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 show top benchmark performance, including new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 and WebDev Arena. Codestral Embed introduces a 3072-dimensional code embedder. BAGEL, an open-source multimodal model by ByteDance, supports reading, reasoning, drawing, and editing with long mixed contexts. Benchmarking highlights include Nemotron-CORTEXA topping SWEBench and Gemini 2.5 Pro performing on VideoGameBench. Discussions on random rewards effectiveness focus on Qwen models. "Opus 4 NEW SOTA ON ARC-AGI-2. It's happening - I was right" and "Claude 4 launch has dev moving at a different pace" reflect excitement in the community.
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OpenAI plans to evolve ChatGPT into a super-assistant by 2025 with models like o3 and o4 enabling agentic tasks and supporting a billion users. Recent multimodal and reasoning model releases include ByteDance's BAGEL-7B, Google's MedGemma, and NVIDIA's ACEReason-Nemotron-14B. The Sudoku-Bench Leaderboard highlights ongoing challenges in AI creative reasoning. In software development, OpenAI's Codex aids code generation and debugging, while Gemini's Context URL tool enhances prompt context. AgenticSeek offers a local, privacy-focused alternative for autonomous agents. Ethical concerns are raised about AGI development priorities and Anthropic's alignment with human values. Technical discussions emphasize emergence in AI and training challenges, with humor addressing misconceptions about Gemini 3.0 and async programming in C. A novel synthetic speech training method enables instruction tuning of LLMs without real speech data, advancing low-resource language support.
Olympus has dropped (aka, Amazon Nova Micro|Lite|Pro|Premier|Canvas|Reel)
amazon-nova claude-3 llama-3-70b gemini-1.5-flash gpt-4o amazon anthropic google-deepmind sakana-ai-labs multimodality benchmarking model-merging model-performance model-architecture model-optimization population-based-learning philschmid bindureddy
Amazon announced the Amazon Nova family of multimodal foundation models at AWS Re:Invent, available immediately with no waitlist in configurations like Micro, Lite, Pro, Canvas, and Reel, with Premier and speech-to-speech coming next year. These models offer 2-4x faster token speeds and are 25%-400% cheaper than competitors like Anthropic Claude models, positioning Nova as a serious contender in AI engineering. Pricing undercuts models such as Google DeepMind Gemini Flash 8B, and some Nova models extend context length up to 300k tokens. However, benchmarking controversy exists as some evaluations show Nova scoring below Llama-3 70B in LiveBench AI metrics. Separately, CycleQD was introduced by Sakana AI Labs, using evolutionary computation for population-based model merging to develop niche LLM agents.