Business
Prices Tumble: AI price wars drive costs down as competition heats up
Fierce competition among model makers and cloud providers drove down the price of access to state-of-the-art models.
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Agents Ascendant: LLMs evolve with agentic workflows, enabling autonomous reasoning and collaboration
The AI community laid the foundation for systems that can act by prompting large language models iteratively, leading to much higher performance across a range of applications.
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When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals
How do agents based on large language models compare to human experts when it comes to proposing machine learning research? Pretty well, according to one study.
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Multimodal Modeling on the Double: Google introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, a faster, more capable AI model
Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash, the first member of its updated Gemini family of large multimodal models, combines speed with performance that exceeds that of its earlier flagship model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, on several measures.
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Open Video Gen Closes the Gap: Tencent releases HunyuanVideo, an open source model rivaling commercial video generators
The gap is narrowing between closed and open models for video generation.
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Phi-4 Beats Models Five Times Its Size: Microsoft’s Phi-4 learned from a blend of synthetic and organic data to surpass larger models in math and reasoning benchmarks
Microsoft updated its smallest model family with a single, surprisingly high-performance model.
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Getting the Facts Right: A memory method that reduces hallucinations in LLMs
Large language models that remember more hallucinate less.
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Game Worlds on Tap: Genie 2 brings interactive 3D worlds to life
A new model improves on recent progress in generating interactive virtual worlds from still images.
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Higher Reasoning: OpenAI debuts o1 and pro mode for $200/month
OpenAI launched not only its highly anticipated o1 model but also an operating mode that enables the model to deliver higher performance — at a hefty price.
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Breaking Jailbreaks: New E-DPO method strengthens defenses against jailbreak prompts
Jailbreak prompts can prod a large language model (LLM) to overstep built-in boundaries, leading it to do things like respond to queries it was trained to refuse to answer. Researchers devised a way to further boost the probability that LLMs will respond in ways that respect such limits.
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Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.
Hardware
Object Detection for Small Devices: Grounding DINO 1.5, an edge device model built for faster, smarter object detection
An open source model is designed to perform sophisticated object detection on edge devices like phones, cars, medical equipment, and smart doorbells.