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TLDR AI 2025-02-13

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01HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

HARVEY RAISES $300M SERIES D

The legal AI startup Harvey raised a substantial sum in a funding round led by Sequoia to continue building tools for law firms.

harvey.ai3 min read

APPLE EXPLORING HUMANOID ROBOTS

Apple is in the early proof-of-concept stage for both humanoid and non-humanoid robots, with potential mass production not expected until 2028 or later.

investors.com2 min read

OPENAI'S ROADMAP FOR GPT-5

OpenAI plans to release GPT-4.5 as its last non-chain-of-thought model before launching GPT-5, which will unify its o-series and GPT-series models.

threadreaderapp.com1 min read

02RESEARCH & INNOVATION

DEEPSCALER: SURPASSING O1-PREVIEW WITH A 1.5B MODEL BY SCALING RL

Most of the research that makes such dramatic claims is easily falsifiable. This is a unique work in that the methods are quite sound. One cool finding the researchers made is that by gradually increasing the context length during RL training, they could smoothly improve AIME performance without wasting compute.

links.tldrnewsletter.com14 min read

COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING WITH LARGE REASONING MODELS

OpenAI paper about using their o series of reasoning models in competitive programming. They find that originally they had to use hand crafted inference strategies, but later versions of o3 scored well without human intervention.

arxiv.org25 min read

100 BILLION IMAGES FOR VLM PRE-TRAINING

DeepMind scaled vision language model training to a substantially higher data scale than was previously attempted. Western-centric tasks saturate quickly. However, performance on diverse global tasks continues to improve. Interestingly, this improvement is rarely captured by existing benchmarks.

arxiv.org28 min read

03ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

ESM2 IN EQUINOX

ESM2 is a great protein folding model. This is a well-maintained version in a popular Jax package.

github.comGitHub repository

DATA FORMULATOR

A great little tool from Microsoft that uses language models to create charts and answer questions about datasets. It unfortunately doesn't support local models, but works well with an API key.

github.comGitHub repository

PAGE ASSIST

One of many new tools for web browsing with local language models.

github.comGitHub repository

04MISCELLANEOUS

GOOGLE EXPANDS AI-POWERED DEMAND GEN FEATURES

Google has introduced new enhancements to Demand Gen campaigns, including advanced customization options, AI-driven creative improvements, and richer product details to improve ad performance across visual-first platforms like YouTube.

blog.google5 min read

AI KEEPS ITS OWN TIME

SiTime's MEMS-based timekeeping device enhances AI efficiency by improving synchronization across multiple components, offering significant energy savings. The Super-TCXO clock provides superior synchronization compared to quartz components, aiding in faster bandwidth and reduced idle times for GPUs. SiTime's technology is already integrated into Nvidia's Spectrum-X Switch, with plans for future advancements in energy efficiency and bandwidth.

spectrum.ieee.org5 min read

AI ‘GODFATHER' PREDICTS ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN THE TECH IN NEXT FIVE YEARS

Yann LeCun predicts a new AI revolution within five years, emphasizing current AI's limitations in understanding the physical world for applications like autonomous cars. LeCun and other AI pioneers received the Queen Elizabeth prize for their work in machine learning. Fellow winner Yoshua Bengio stresses the need for addressing AI safety risks at the upcoming global AI summit.

theguardian.com3 min read