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DeepSeek-V3 is the new best open model: All about OpenAI’s upcoming o-series models

Genesis uses generative AI in a physics-based robotics/world platform. Qwen presents QVQ, an open language/vision model. ModernBERT updates BERT as a classic classifier/retrieval workhorse. CodeLLM switches between models depending on your language and query.

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The AI tools that helped define 2024: A special winter holiday issue of Data Points

The Big Guys (Google, Anthropic, Perplexity). Making Media (Black Forest Labs, Udio). Building Software (OpenHands, Cursor, LangChain, Meta). Bringing It All Together (Replit, UX Pilot, and one more).

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Google adds Thinking Mode to Flash 2.0: OpenAI’s o1 now available in the API

Speech-to-speech models fall short on benchmarks. Backlash against misleading news summaries. Google updates its video and image models. Nvidia’s $250 palm-sized computer for AI developers.

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Microsoft’s Phi-4 proves AI power isn’t just about size: Projects and Canvas get ChatGPT ready for work

NotebookLM gets a plus-sized update. Meta’s Motivo model marks a return to the metaverse. New synthetic data generator makes training easier. NeurIPS 2024’s sabotage controversy.

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Harvard University releases giant dataset of public-domain books: Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash beats top models on benchmarks

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode can see as well as hear. GM drops robotaxi division in favor of AI-assisted driving. Ruliad’s new model offers transparent reasoning in a small package. Large Concept Models move on from token-based AI.

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Sora has landed (for Pro and Plus users): ElevenLabs unveils podcast tool to challenge NotebookLM

Meta’s 70-billion parameter Llama 3.3 beats 3.1 405B on some metrics. WorldLabs shows off its 3D world model. PaliGemma 2, Google’s open vision-language model. Could new AI models hide their true goals?

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Amazon’s Nova bursts onto the scene: OpenAI’s full o1 model now available in ChatGPT

HunyuanVideo vies with Sora, etc. A new record for underwater robot speed. Apple partners with Amazon for search and inference. More publishers sign on with Perplexity.

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OpenAI considers ads: Cohere’s new search model

U.S. shuts down more chips and tech to China. Claude’s Google Docs integration. Adobe’s MultiFoley generates sound for video. Canadian media companies sue OpenAI.

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Qwen’s QwQ-32B-Preview packs a big punch: Anthropic’s MCP, an open-source data protocol for agents

Jina updates CLIP embedding model. OLMo2 delivers state-of-the-art performance for smaller open models. Nvidia’s Fugatto produces a wide range of sounds. U.S. antitrust regulator takes a hard look at Microsoft.

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Cobot’s Proxie robot tackles warehouse tasks: VBench++, a new benchmark suite for AI video

Anthropic and Amazon strengthen their ties. Windsurf blends copilots with agents in one IDE. Mistral introduces Pixtral Large to its APIs and chat platform. H’s first product launch is a business agent.

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DeepSeek’s R1 seeks to match OpenAI’s o1: Microsoft will train future model on big publisher’s books

Flux’s new image tools compete with Adobe and other photo apps. Qwen speeds up its 2.5 model while boosting context window. Rabbit launches Teach Mode in beta for its R1 devices. Banks embrace third-party AI, but want to control their data.

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Finding the limits of pretraining and quantization: New EU draft guidelines for regulating top models

Google AI detects wildfires from satellite images. Baidu shows off image RAG, no-code tools, and smart glasses. ChatGPT apps link up with desktop coding tools. New LoRA tools improve image models’ consistency and text generation.