EAGLE-3 speeds up language models: And the 2024 Turing Award goes to…
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EAGLE-3 speeds up language models: And the 2024 Turing Award goes to…

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.

March 10, 20253 min read
EAGLE-3 speeds up language models: And the 2024 Turing Award goes to…
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EAGLE-3 speeds up language models: And the 2024 Turing Award goes to…

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.

March 10, 20253 min read
Qwen’s mid-sized reasoning model scores big: Sesame moves through speech models’ “uncanny valley”
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Qwen’s mid-sized reasoning model scores big: Sesame moves through speech models’ “uncanny valley”

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.

March 7, 20253 min read
Qwen’s mid-sized reasoning model scores big: Sesame moves through speech models’ “uncanny valley”
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Qwen’s mid-sized reasoning model scores big: Sesame moves through speech models’ “uncanny valley”

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.

March 7, 20253 min read
All the models we’ve been waiting for: OpenAI’s scaled-up Project Orion arrives
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All the models we’ve been waiting for: OpenAI’s scaled-up Project Orion arrives

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.

February 28, 20254 min read
All the models we’ve been waiting for: OpenAI’s scaled-up Project Orion arrives
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All the models we’ve been waiting for: OpenAI’s scaled-up Project Orion arrives

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.

February 28, 20254 min read
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model: DeepSeek’s FlashMLA is its first entry in OpenInfra week
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Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model: DeepSeek’s FlashMLA is its first entry in OpenInfra week

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.

February 24, 20253 min read
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model: DeepSeek’s FlashMLA is its first entry in OpenInfra week
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Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model: DeepSeek’s FlashMLA is its first entry in OpenInfra week

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.

February 24, 20253 min read
Microsoft builds a generative world-action model: Perplexity opens up uncensored “1776” version of DeepSeek-R1
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Microsoft builds a generative world-action model: Perplexity opens up uncensored “1776” version of DeepSeek-R1

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.

February 21, 20254 min read
Microsoft builds a generative world-action model: Perplexity opens up uncensored “1776” version of DeepSeek-R1
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Microsoft builds a generative world-action model: Perplexity opens up uncensored “1776” version of DeepSeek-R1

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.

February 21, 20254 min read
Perplexity unveils new Sonar model with Deep Research: Baidu says it will make Ernie open source and Ernie Bot free
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Perplexity unveils new Sonar model with Deep Research: Baidu says it will make Ernie open source and Ernie Bot free

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.

February 17, 20254 min read
Perplexity unveils new Sonar model with Deep Research: Baidu says it will make Ernie open source and Ernie Bot free
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Perplexity unveils new Sonar model with Deep Research: Baidu says it will make Ernie open source and Ernie Bot free

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.

February 17, 20254 min read
OpenAI reveals simplified model roadmap: Thomson Reuters ruling constrains fair use claims
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OpenAI reveals simplified model roadmap: Thomson Reuters ruling constrains fair use claims

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.

February 14, 20253 min read
OpenAI reveals simplified model roadmap: Thomson Reuters ruling constrains fair use claims
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OpenAI reveals simplified model roadmap: Thomson Reuters ruling constrains fair use claims

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.

February 14, 20253 min read
o3-mini tops the AIME 2025 math leaderboard: AlphaGeometry2 solves even more Olympiad-level problems
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o3-mini tops the AIME 2025 math leaderboard: AlphaGeometry2 solves even more Olympiad-level problems

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.

February 10, 20253 min read

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