Data Points

Music and lyrics in one diffusion model. Manus AI’s impressive demos spark excitement and backlash. OpenAI sees AGI as a gradual evolution. Google unveils its first Gemini-branded embedding models.

Cohere’s open vision models support many languages. Jamba 1.6’s two hybrid MoE models promise more speed. Anthropic overhauls its developer console for Claude Sonnet 3.7. Mistral brings its multilingual/multimedia skills to OCR.

Mercury debuts diffusion language models. Alibaba’s top video model is now free to download. A new model from Tencent is built for speed. IBM’s Granite 3.2 models are built for business.

Figure’s Helix vision language action robotics model. Google fine-tunes its own family of open VL models. SuperGPQA may be the most challenging general knowledge test yet. Meta creates new framework to evaluate agentic LLMs.

Researchers develop a highly capable language diffusion model. Google’s hypothesis-making agent is your new research partner. A new family of vision-language models for low-resource devices. HP will brick Humane’s Ai Pin and repurpose its tech for new devices.

Early version of o3 wows on Codeforces and IOI tests. Adobe debuts integrated Firefly web app with new video model. Mistral’s Arabic-language Saba model scores high on benchmarks. LM2 updates the transformer architecture with dedicated memory.

Apple and Alibaba strike an AI deal. Building a reasoning model without using chain of thought. Torque clustering may enable better, faster autonomous learning. Remaking BERT without using task-specific heads.

Replit’s agentic app for building more apps. ASAP experiments with training techniques for agile robots. Hugging Face’s smaller, open language model beats competitors. IBM uses RL to add reasoning to its open Granite models.

Claude’s new method to thwart universal jailbreaks. DeepMind team shares recipes for model scaling. Copilot adds agent mode, previews more autonomous tools. π0 robotics foundation models are now open source.

Qwen updates its many multimodal models. Nvidia’s Eagle vision-language models are small but sharp. Tülu open post-training recipe whips Llama 3.1 405B into shape. Microsoft Azure is of two minds regarding DeepSeek R1.

Wiz finds DeepSeek’s unprotected user database. Open weights model Mistral Small gets an update. Janus-Pro is DeepSeek’s top multimodal model. Yoshua Bengio’s team releases long-awaited AI safety report.

Claude’s Citations API makes it easier to track your sources. Browser Use challenges Computer Use, for free. How game developers both adopt and fear AI. Hunyuan’s new open model builds 3D assets with textures.

ByteDance’s Doubao promises GPT-4o performance at cut-rate prices. Perplexity debuts new API grounding in web search. Hugging Face’s SmolVLM gets even smaller. Benchmark-maker Epoch AI and OpenAI criticized for keeping funding deal under wraps.

Codestral matches or beats mid-sized fill-in-the-middle models. MiniMax’s “Lightning Attention” tries to improve on the transformer. Co-STORM now available for AI collaboration on encyclopedia articles. LlamaIndex uses agentic RAG to retrieve info from complex documents.

Moondream’s lightweight vision model adds gaze detection. Fine-tuning Flux Pro’s generative model with just a few images. Copilot Chat brings simple agents to Microsoft 365. Google adds Gemini to all its Workspace plans.