Report claims AI will create millions of net jobs: rStar-Math boosts small models’ math skills to o1’s level
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Report claims AI will create millions of net jobs: rStar-Math boosts small models’ math skills to o1’s level

Court filings show Meta pirated model training data. Stability’s SPAR3D speeds up 3D image generation. How robots aid nursing care workers in Japan. Deliberative alignment uses more compute to ensure safety.

January 13, 20253 min read
Report claims AI will create millions of net jobs: rStar-Math boosts small models’ math skills to o1’s level
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Report claims AI will create millions of net jobs: rStar-Math boosts small models’ math skills to o1’s level

Court filings show Meta pirated model training data. Stability’s SPAR3D speeds up 3D image generation. How robots aid nursing care workers in Japan. Deliberative alignment uses more compute to ensure safety.

January 13, 20253 min read
Nvidia announces Cosmos world models at CES: Microsoft’s Phi-4 model now available on Hugging Face
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Nvidia announces Cosmos world models at CES: Microsoft’s Phi-4 model now available on Hugging Face

AI careers remain just as hot as you might expect. Columbia’s GET model predicts gene expression. Cohere’s North brings easy and secure automaton to enterprise. Meta pauses older AI characters but will introduce new ones this year.

January 10, 20253 min read
Nvidia announces Cosmos world models at CES: Microsoft’s Phi-4 model now available on Hugging Face
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Nvidia announces Cosmos world models at CES: Microsoft’s Phi-4 model now available on Hugging Face

AI careers remain just as hot as you might expect. Columbia’s GET model predicts gene expression. Cohere’s North brings easy and secure automaton to enterprise. Meta pauses older AI characters but will introduce new ones this year.

January 10, 20253 min read
ElevenLabs drops latency to 75 milliseconds: New Falcon3 helps push the field for smaller language models
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ElevenLabs drops latency to 75 milliseconds: New Falcon3 helps push the field for smaller language models

Nvidia promises to open source Run:ai. SALT inverts distillation by having a smaller model train a larger one. SWE-Gym offers new way to fine-tune coding agents. Llama put to work to recommend books on Scribd.

January 6, 20253 min read
ElevenLabs drops latency to 75 milliseconds: New Falcon3 helps push the field for smaller language models
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ElevenLabs drops latency to 75 milliseconds: New Falcon3 helps push the field for smaller language models

Nvidia promises to open source Run:ai. SALT inverts distillation by having a smaller model train a larger one. SWE-Gym offers new way to fine-tune coding agents. Llama put to work to recommend books on Scribd.

January 6, 20253 min read
Texas legislation would aggressively regulate AI: OpenAI revisits a public benefit for-profit structure
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Texas legislation would aggressively regulate AI: OpenAI revisits a public benefit for-profit structure

SmallThinker builds a 3 billion parameter reasoning model. Alibaba cuts prices on its Qwen models. Google unveils the FACTS model benchmark. Smolagents orchestrates smaller open source agents.

January 3, 20253 min read
Texas legislation would aggressively regulate AI: OpenAI revisits a public benefit for-profit structure
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Texas legislation would aggressively regulate AI: OpenAI revisits a public benefit for-profit structure

SmallThinker builds a 3 billion parameter reasoning model. Alibaba cuts prices on its Qwen models. Google unveils the FACTS model benchmark. Smolagents orchestrates smaller open source agents.

January 3, 20253 min read
New Year’s resolutions for (and by) AI in 2025: A special New Year’s Eve issue of Data Points
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New Year’s resolutions for (and by) AI in 2025: A special New Year’s Eve issue of Data Points

Want a sneak peek at AI’s resolutions for 2025? We’ve got you covered: Get less expensive. Hallucinate less often. Perform better at math. Clean up after myself. Use less energy. Save as many lives as I can.

December 30, 20247 min read
New Year’s resolutions for (and by) AI in 2025: A special New Year’s Eve issue of Data Points
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New Year’s resolutions for (and by) AI in 2025: A special New Year’s Eve issue of Data Points

Want a sneak peek at AI’s resolutions for 2025? We’ve got you covered: Get less expensive. Hallucinate less often. Perform better at math. Clean up after myself. Use less energy. Save as many lives as I can.

December 30, 20247 min read
DeepSeek-V3 is the new best open model: All about OpenAI’s upcoming o-series models
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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.

December 27, 20243 min read
DeepSeek-V3 is the new best open model: All about OpenAI’s upcoming o-series models
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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.

December 27, 20243 min read
The AI tools that helped define 2024: A special winter holiday issue of Data Points
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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).

December 23, 20244 min read
The AI tools that helped define 2024: A special winter holiday issue of Data Points
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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).

December 23, 20244 min read
Google adds Thinking Mode to Flash 2.0: OpenAI’s o1 now available in the API
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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.

December 20, 20243 min read

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