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Comparison table of AI models ranked by LCB score and Codeforces rating with percentiles for competitive programming.

Machine Learning Research

Open, Compact Code Generator: DeepCoder-14B-Preview further fine-tunes reasoning models for coding

An open-source code generator performs comparably to the reasoning models DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1 with a much smaller model.

Table comparing AI model accuracy on math and reasoning benchmarks including AIME, HMMT, OmniMath, GPQA-D, and Codeforces.

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Reasoning Models With Recipes: Microsoft unveils training details for Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning

Microsoft published its latest recipe for training reasoning models, substantially expanding what is still a fairly small base of public knowledge.

Chart showing LLM accuracy increasing with reasoning tokens across math and science benchmarks like AIME24 and GPQA.

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One Weird Trick for Better Reasoning: Researchers fine-tune LLM for reasoning with only 1,000 examples

Researchers showed that supervised fine-tuning on as few as 1,000 examples can enable a pretrained large language model to reason — and a clever gambit can boost its performance to rival that of top reasoning models.

LLM performance benchmark table comparing Qwen, OpenAI, Gemini, and others on coding, math, and language tasks.

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Qwen3 Takes On DeepSeek-R1: Alibaba releases the Qwen3 family of open LLMs with optional reasoning

Alibaba’s new model family may unseat DeepSeek-R1’s four-month reign as the top open-weights large language model.

Diagram of LLM-based preference approximation and multimodal sequential recommendation for personalized product suggestions.

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Inferring Customer Preferences: LLMs boost shopping recommendations by decoding what users want

Large language models can improve systems that recommend items to purchase by inferring customer preferences.

Comparison chart of GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini with other models on coding, math, tool use, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks.

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OpenAI Launches Cost-Effective Alternatives: OpenAI replaces GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1 Family, plus o3 and o4-mini, new models focused on reasoning and coding

OpenAI refreshed its roster of models and scheduled the largest, most costly one for removal.

Diagram of latent transformer model using byte-level encoding, patching, and cross-attention for next-byte prediction.

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Toward LLMs That Understand Misspellings: New byte-based model beats Llama 3 on spelling, noise, and translation

Researchers built a model that’s more robust to noisy inputs like misspellings, smarter about character-level information like the number of R's in strawberry, and potentially better able to understand unfamiliar languages that might share groups of letters with familiar languages.

Business

The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI

A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.

Diagram of Modal Context Protocol showing MCP client-server architecture, APIs, and local and remote data sources.

Business

Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration

OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.

AI benchmark comparison chart showing Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4.5, Claude, Grok, and others across science, math, code, and reasoning.

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Google Unveils Gemini 2.5: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental outperforms top AI models

Google’s new flagship model raised the state of the art in a variety of subjective and objective tests.

Llama 4 Behemoth benchmark chart comparing coding, reasoning, and multilingual scores with Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4.5.

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Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors

Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.

AI tutoring system interface showing real-time context integration, privacy, and expert-like feedback generation.

Tech & Society

LLM Support for Tutors: GPT-4 boosts remote tutors’ performance in real time, study finds

Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.