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

November 25, 20243 min read
DeepSeek’s R1 seeks to match OpenAI’s o1: Microsoft will train future model on big publisher’s books
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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.

November 22, 20243 min read
DeepSeek’s R1 seeks to match OpenAI’s o1: Microsoft will train future model on big publisher’s books
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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.

November 22, 20243 min read
Finding the limits of pretraining and quantization: New EU draft guidelines for regulating top models
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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.

November 18, 20243 min read
Finding the limits of pretraining and quantization: New EU draft guidelines for regulating top models
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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.

November 18, 20243 min read
OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4
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OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4

MLPerf tests show Nvidia’s Blackwell chips excel at training models. Google releases AlphaFold 3 code and parameters (with restrictions). DeepSeek’s two-way image model gets even better. Judge tosses copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.

November 15, 20243 min read
OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4
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OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4

MLPerf tests show Nvidia’s Blackwell chips excel at training models. Google releases AlphaFold 3 code and parameters (with restrictions). DeepSeek’s two-way image model gets even better. Judge tosses copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.

November 15, 20243 min read
Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China
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Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China

FrontierMath’s hard math problems baffle models. Nvidia partners with Hugging Face’s robotics platform. Mistral offers multilingual text moderation. Grok teases free access for New Zealand’s X users.

November 11, 20243 min read
Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China
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Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China

FrontierMath’s hard math problems baffle models. Nvidia partners with Hugging Face’s robotics platform. Mistral offers multilingual text moderation. Grok teases free access for New Zealand’s X users.

November 11, 20243 min read
SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B
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SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B

Oasis builds interactive Minecraft-style games in real-time. Microsoft releases system to coordinate AI agents. OpenAI’s new predicted outputs feature speeds up generation. GitHub launches Spark, a platform to build and host micro-apps.

November 8, 20243 min read
SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B
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SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B

Oasis builds interactive Minecraft-style games in real-time. Microsoft releases system to coordinate AI agents. OpenAI’s new predicted outputs feature speeds up generation. GitHub launches Spark, a platform to build and host micro-apps.

November 8, 20243 min read
Python overtakes JavaScript as top programming language on GitHub: Robots finally have enough training data to fold your laundry
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Python overtakes JavaScript as top programming language on GitHub: Robots finally have enough training data to fold your laundry

ChatGPT now includes an AI search engine. Upgrading data centers leaves behind too much trash. OmniParser works with vision models to read computer screens. Gallup poll shows most big companies’ workforces haven’t embraced AI.

November 4, 20243 min read
Python overtakes JavaScript as top programming language on GitHub: Robots finally have enough training data to fold your laundry
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Python overtakes JavaScript as top programming language on GitHub: Robots finally have enough training data to fold your laundry

ChatGPT now includes an AI search engine. Upgrading data centers leaves behind too much trash. OmniParser works with vision models to read computer screens. Gallup poll shows most big companies’ workforces haven’t embraced AI.

November 4, 20243 min read
What counts as an open source AI model?: Claude, Gemini, and o1 models added to GitHub Copilot
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What counts as an open source AI model?: Claude, Gemini, and o1 models added to GitHub Copilot

Researchers find hallucinations in Whisper transcriptions. White House directs how security agencies should use AI. Jailbreaking LLM-enabled robots could have devastating effects. Google’s synthetic podcast tool Illuminate specializes in research papers.

November 1, 20243 min read
What counts as an open source AI model?: Claude, Gemini, and o1 models added to GitHub Copilot
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What counts as an open source AI model?: Claude, Gemini, and o1 models added to GitHub Copilot

Researchers find hallucinations in Whisper transcriptions. White House directs how security agencies should use AI. Jailbreaking LLM-enabled robots could have devastating effects. Google’s synthetic podcast tool Illuminate specializes in research papers.

November 1, 20243 min read

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