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Claude can now write and run JavaScript in chat: Cohere’s embedding model update adds images as well as text

Allegro, an open-source video generation model from Rhymes AI. Meta’s new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B. SynthID text, a new text watermarking tool. Meta’s Lingua and Self-Taught Evaluator, two model-training tools.

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Anthropic updates Claude, adds computer agent API: Stable Diffusion 3.5 offers free image generation for most users

Spirit LM, an open-weights speech model from Meta. IBM’s open-source, 8–billion parameter Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Google expands its music sandbox for pros and amateurs. A new leaderboard for smaller, quantized language models.

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DeepSeek’s Janus reads and generates images: SambaNova and Gradio team up for fast AI webapps

A new safety investigation of Tesla’s self-driving tech. Perplexity adds collaborative spaces and internal search. Nvidia’s new Nemotron model scores big on benchmarks. Telegram’s subculture of explicit deepfake generators.

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Mistral’s Ministral family tops other local models: Open AI’s Swarm orchestrates teams of agents

NotebookLM lets you add prompts for better podcasts. Apple researchers doubt whether current LLMs can reason. OpenAI tests ChatGPT for gender and racial bias. Perplexity squares off with The New York Times.

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AI models can generate code, but how well do they understand it?: Falcon’s Mamba model outperforms transformers

The MI325X, AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s H200. Research on new language model architectures from Microsoft. Mathcoder 2 makes open models better at mathematical reasoning. An AI system that recreates pianists’ hand movements.

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Pyramid Flow takes a new approach to video: Gradio update makes it easier to build powerful AI webapps

Anthropic makes batch processing cheaper. A new leaderboard measures models’ finance performance. Aria introduces an new open multimodal MoE model. SETI’s new AI model helps search for life in outer space.

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Apple’s new models punch above their weight: Liquid explores a new multimodal modal architecture

Copilot may lead to more bugs than productivity gains. OpenAI prunes its Whisper model for faster completions. A new study measures top AI companies’ redteaming efforts. An open-source CLI coding assistant, o1-engineer.

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Emu3 claims “next-token prediction is all you need”: Black Forest updates FLUX image model, adds a developer API

OpenAI introduces new canvas UI for editing with ChatGPT. Google’s chip design model gets a new (but familiar) name. Microsoft launches some of the features it promised with Recall. Aider wants to give the right models the right jobs.

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Nemotron models boost Llama’s speed but maintain accuracy: NotebookLM “reads” audio and video

Hacking ChatGPT’s long-term memory function. U.S. trade commission targets companies who lie about AI. A new OpenAI model for screening text and images. Apple, Meta, and others hold off on AI Pact

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Molmo’s impressive open multimodal models: Llama 3.2 adds vision models and small LLMs

Google’s top Gemini models cut prices, boost performance. Microsoft’s new approach to correct hallucinations. OpenAI releases a multilingual training dataset. Chain-of-thought reasoning has limits.

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Using GPT to debunk conspiracy theories: Nvidia’s new open vision-language models

Kling 1.5 text-to-video model adds 1080p, editing tools. Codeforces restricts AI use in competition. Identifying whalesong using bioacoustic markers. A prize challenge for improving robotics world models.

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Alibaba’s impressive suite of open models: Mistral cuts prices across its lineup

Runway adds video-to-video and API. Moshi, a new open speech model. LlamaCoder’s open webapp builder alternative. California restricts synthetic actors and election deepfakes.