The Daily Index — Wednesday, March 26, 2025 · TLDR Index

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DEEPSEEK-V3-0324 RELEASE WITH MIT LICENSE

DeepSeek has released its new V3-0324 model, which outperforms GPT 4.5 in most benchmarks and features major improvements in performance.

api-docs.deepseek.com · 3 min

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QWEN 2.5 32B VISION LANGUAGE MODEL

Qwen has released a strong vision language model that is open and can run reasonably well on consumer hardware.

qwenlm.github.io · 6 min

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MODIFYING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL POST-TRAINING FOR DIVERSE CREATIVE WRITING

Midjourney has released some work to improve diversity in creative writing models. It was able to post-train a small 7B model that outperforms much larger open and closed models in creative writing.

arxiv.org · 20 min

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VIDEO T1

Test time compute for video that uses a guidance model to reject frame paths that don't conform to physics or the user specified prompt. Using test time compute for this task dramatically improves performance on benchmarks.

liuff19.github.io · 27 min

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3D FACE EDITING

FFaceNeRF enhances 3D face editing by overcoming fixed mask limitations in NeRF-based methods.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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DEREFLECTION ANY IMAGE

Dereflection Any Image (DAI) introduces a new diffusion-based approach for reflection removal, leveraging a high-quality dataset and progressive training.

abuuu122.github.io · 2 min

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SINGLE IMAGE ITERATIVE SUBJECT-DRIVEN GENERATION AND EDITING

SISO is an inference-time optimization method that personalizes images from a single subject image without training. It can personalize the subject of a given image or generate new images with the personal subject.

siso-paper.github.io · 8 min

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MANNY MEDINA'S NEW STARTUP: PAID

Outreach founder Manny Medina has launched Paid, a platform designed to help AI agent startups manage pricing and profitability. With backing from top investors, Paid aims to redefine how AI agents are billed and valued in the emerging agent economy.

techcrunch.com · 5 min

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A KEY DEEPMIND ROBOTICS RESEARCHER LEFT GOOGLE, AND NVIDIA HAS ALREADY BACKED HIS STEALTH STARTUP

Pete Florence, previously a senior research scientist at DeepMind, has left to form Generalist AI, a robotics startup backed by Nvidia's VC arm, NVentures. The company aims to create general-purpose robots, with Florence highlighting the vision of reducing the marginal cost of physical labor to zero. Florence joins other former DeepMind scientists in launching tech ventures amidst Nvidia's growing influence in AI.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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CLAUDE CAN NOW SEARCH THE WEB

Claude now features web search functionality for real-time insights and up-to-date responses, complete with source citations.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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INTRODUCING NEXT-GENERATION AUDIO MODELS IN THE API

OpenAI has introduced new audio models, including Voice Engine, capable of generating realistic voices from short samples.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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PERPLEXITY IS REPORTEDLY IN TALKS TO RAISE UP TO $1B AT AN $18B VALUATION

AI search startup Perplexity is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of $18 billion.

techcrunch.com · 2 min