All tags
Topic: "style-control"
Anthropic's $61.5B Series E
gpt-4.5 claude-3.7-sonnet deepseek-r1 anthropic openai deepseek lmsys perplexity-ai deutsche-telekom model-performance benchmarking style-control coding multi-turn funding partnerships workflow lmarena_ai teortaxestex casper_hansen_ omarsar0 aidan_mclau willdepue vikhyatk teknim1 reach_vb _aidan_clark_ cto_junior aravsrinivas
Anthropic raised a $3.5 billion Series E funding round at a $61.5 billion valuation, signaling strong financial backing for the Claude AI model. GPT-4.5 achieved #1 rank across all categories on the LMArena leaderboard, excelling in multi-turn conversations, coding, math, creative writing, and style control. DeepSeek R1 tied with GPT-4.5 for top performance on hard prompts with style control. Discussions highlighted comparisons between GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet in coding and workflow applications. The importance of the LMSYS benchmark was emphasized, though some questioned the relevance of benchmarks versus user acquisition. Additionally, Perplexity AI partnered with Deutsche Telekom to integrate the Perplexity Assistant into a new AI phone.
not much happened today
llama-3-1 claude-3-5-sonnet llama-3-1-405b ltm-2-mini qwen2-vl gpt-4o-mini meta-ai-fair hugging-face magic-ai-labs lmsys alibaba openai long-context style-control multimodality ai-safety model-evaluation web-crawling pdf-processing ai-hype-cycles call-center-automation sam-altman ajeya-cotra fchollet rohanpaul_ai philschmid
Meta announced significant adoption of LLaMA 3.1 with nearly 350 million downloads on Hugging Face. Magic AI Labs introduced LTM-2-Mini, a long context model with a 100 million token context window, and a new evaluation method called HashHop. LMSys added style control to their Chatbot Arena leaderboard, improving rankings for models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and LLaMA 3.1 405B. Alibaba released Qwen2-VL, a multimodal LLM under Apache 2.0 license, competitive with GPT-4o mini. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced collaboration with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-release model testing. Discussions on AI safety and potential AI takeover risks were highlighted by Ajeya Cotra. Tools like firecrawl for web crawling and challenges in PDF processing were noted. AI hype cycles and market trends were discussed by François Chollet, and potential AI disruption in call centers was shared by Rohan Paul.