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01GENERAL

Sponsored

APPLICATIONS

As LLM and agentic AI adoption grows, managing costs while maintaining performance is critical for enterprise success. An LLM Mesh [4] enables cost-efficient and performant AI at scale.

pages.dataiku.comSponsor

02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

STATE OF AI INDEX 2025

A great, high level, and comprehensive summary in 10 charts of the current state of AI across models, investment, and costs.

hai.stanford.edu18 min read

WAYMO'S PRIVACY CONCERNS

Waymo's draft privacy policy reveals it may use in-cabin camera footage to train AI models and personalize ads, prompting fresh concerns over data use in autonomous vehicles.

techcrunch.com5 min read

AI STARTUPS IN HEALTHCARE

Google for Startups has launched its 2025 AI for Health cohort, supporting 25 startups across EMEA with mentorship, product support, and AI best practices.

blog.google4 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

BENCHMARKING OPEN SOURCE MODELS FOR OCR

OCR is the task of recognizing text in images. It is challenging in the long tail and immensely valuable when done right. Many closed models such as the Gemini series are exceptional at this task. The new suite of Llama 4 models pushes the state of the art for open models forward substantially.

getomni.ai17 min read

DEEPCODER

Together AI has trained a coding model that is competitive with closed source reasoning models. It has released data, code, training recipes, and showcased the model's strong long context ability.

together.ai12 min read

A NEW BATCH NORMALIZATION

This paper proposes a new batch normalization method for SPD manifolds that uses a learnable Generalized Bures-Wasserstein metric.

arxiv.org16 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

HI DREAM IMAGE GENERATION MODEL

A strong 17B parameter image generation model that uses 4 different text encoders for generation. It has strong overall performance and is permissively licensed.

github.comGitHub repository

A FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC MULTI-PRODUCT PRICING

This paper introduces a new framework for dynamic multi-product pricing that uses a censored multinomial logit model where buyers only consider products below their valuations.

arxiv.org18 min read

MOTIFBENCH FOR PROTEIN DESIGN

MotifBench is a benchmark designed for computational protein design that focuses on the motif-scaffolding problem by identifying protein structures that stabilize target motifs.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

HOW STUDENTS USE CLAUDE IN EDUCATION

Anthropic analyzed one million student conversations to understand AI usage in education. STEM students dominate usage, primarily leveraging Claude for content creation, technical problem-solving, and higher-order learning tasks.

links.tldrnewsletter.com12 min read

ARABIC AI BENCHMARKS

Inception and MBZUAI have launched a unified Arabic AI evaluation platform featuring updated AraGen benchmarks and a new instruction-following leaderboard built on the Arabic IFEval benchmark.

huggingface.co9 min read