Machine Learning Research
Vision-Language, Compact and Open: Google releases Gemma 3 vision-language models with open weights
Google updated its open-weights family of large language models to include versions that handle image and video inputs.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Business
Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
Tech & Society
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.
Machine Learning Research
Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models
Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.
Machine Learning Research
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.
Machine Learning Research
Text Generation by Diffusion: Mercury Coder uses diffusion to generate text
Typical large language models are autoregressive, predicting the next token, one at a time, from left to right. A new model hones all text tokens at once.
Machine Learning Research
Reasoning in Vectors, Not Text: Meta introduces Chain of Continuous Thought (Coconut) to improve next-token prediction
Although large language models can improve their performance by generating a chain of thought (CoT) — intermediate text tokens that break down the process of responding to a prompt into a series of steps.
Business
Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle
Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
Machine Learning Research
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
Machine Learning Research
Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning
xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.
Machine Learning Research
Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models
While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.