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.
Machine Learning Research
Science
Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties
Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.
Machine Learning Research
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.
Machine Learning Research
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.
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
Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously
Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.