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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Microsoft’s Phi-4 proves AI power isn’t just about size: Projects and Canvas get ChatGPT ready for work

NotebookLM gets a plus-sized update. Meta’s Motivo model marks a return to the metaverse. New synthetic data generator makes training easier. NeurIPS 2024’s sabotage controversy.

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Harvard University releases giant dataset of public-domain books: Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash beats top models on benchmarks

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode can see as well as hear. GM drops robotaxi division in favor of AI-assisted driving. Ruliad’s new model offers transparent reasoning in a small package. Large Concept Models move on from token-based AI.

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Sora has landed (for Pro and Plus users): ElevenLabs unveils podcast tool to challenge NotebookLM

Meta’s 70-billion parameter Llama 3.3 beats 3.1 405B on some metrics. WorldLabs shows off its 3D world model. PaliGemma 2, Google’s open vision-language model. Could new AI models hide their true goals?

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Amazon’s Nova bursts onto the scene: OpenAI’s full o1 model now available in ChatGPT

HunyuanVideo vies with Sora, etc. A new record for underwater robot speed. Apple partners with Amazon for search and inference. More publishers sign on with Perplexity.