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HUGGING FACE INFERENCE SUPPORTS COHERE MODELS

Cohere became the first model creator to directly host and serve its enterprise-focused AI models on Hugging Face.

CREATE AI-GENERATED SOUNDTRACK IN SHORTS WITH DREAM TRACK

YouTube's Dream Track is now available in the U.S. on YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app, enabling AI-generated instrumental soundtracks for content creators. These tracks can be remixed globally to create unique Shorts, fostering a collaborative ecosystem. The feature integrates directly with YouTube's creation tools and adheres to community guidelines.

OPENAI FLEX PROCESSING

OpenAI has introduced Flex processing, a cost-saving API option that trades slower response times and intermittent availability for lower prices, ideal for non-production tasks.

CONVERSATIONAL AI FOR CELLS

C2S-Scale is a new family of LLMs that interprets single-cell data and translates biological signals into natural language for applications in personalized medicine and drug discovery.

ANTHROPIC ENHANCES CLAUDE WITH RESEARCH AND GOOGLE WORKSPACE INTEGRATION

Anthropic has launched new Claude features: Research for autonomous multi-step search with citations and Google Workspace integration for context-aware assistance.

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GROK CANVAS-LIKE TOOL FOR DOCUMENT CREATION

Grok, the chatbot from xAI, now includes Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool to build documents and basic apps. It's now live for all users.

LATENTS FOR GENERATIVE MODELING

Candidate for best blog post of the year for folks interested in generative modeling. This post breaks down the history, intuition, and key innovations for learned latents.

OPENAI O3 AND O4-MINI

OpenAI has released the new o3 and o4-mini models, which improve ChatGPT's tool use and enable smarter, faster reasoning with integrated web search, file analysis, and image generation.

NVIDIA'S TEMPORALLY CONSISTENT VIDEO DIFFUSION

NVIDIA's EquivDM is a framework that enhances video diffusion by using consistent noise for better motion tracking and 3D-consistent outputs with fewer sampling steps.

INTELLECT 2 DISTRIBUTED TRAINING

Prime Intellect has trained a 32B network, fully distributed, with reinforcement learning for reasoning. It has open sourced a substantial amount of its code and useful libraries.

M1: TOWARDS SCALABLE TEST-TIME COMPUTE WITH MAMBA REASONING MODELS

M1 is a Mamba reasoning model that has been trained with extended test time computation. It doesn't fully match state-of-the-art models, but it shows strong performance, especially on long context and through-put.

DEEPMATH DATASET

103K examples of highly filtered and decontaminated math problems for reasoning model training.

PRIMA CPP

Prima CPP is an extension of llama.cpp that tries to enable mmaping of memory for large models to enable them to run on low RAM environments.

TILE LANGUAGE

Tile Language is a concise domain-specific language designed to streamline the development of high-performance GPU/CPU kernels (e.g., GEMM, Dequant GEMM, FlashAttention, and LinearAttention). By employing a Pythonic syntax with an underlying compiler infrastructure on top of TVM, it allows developers to focus on productivity without sacrificing the low-level optimizations necessary for state-of-the-art performance.

ASSORT HEALTH SECURES $26 MILLION

Assort Health, a leading AI platform for managing patient calls, has announced new funding, bringing total capital to $26 million, to accelerate its mission of improving healthcare access. The company's technology has led to 8x revenue growth since late 2024 by reducing call hold times and increasing appointment accuracy, evidenced by high patient satisfaction. Backed by prominent investors, Assort Health integrates with EHR systems, achieving a 99% scheduling accuracy and over a 90% resolution rate.

HUGGING FACE UPDATED HELMET BENCHMARK

Hugging Face has expanded its HELMET benchmark to include more models and insights, helping researchers evaluate long-context LLMs like Phi-4 and Jamba 1.6.

GOOGLE USES AI TO CUT SCAM ADS BY 90%

Google's 2024 Ads Safety Report highlights how LLM upgrades blocked billions of bad ads, suspended 700K+ scam accounts, and reduced impersonation scams significantly.

STABLE DIFFUSION NOW RUNS FASTER ON AMD GPUS

Stability AI and AMD optimized several Stable Diffusion models for Radeon GPUs and Ryzen AI, improving speed and performance for AMD users.

OPENAI IN TALKS TO PAY ABOUT $3 BILLION TO ACQUIRE AI CODING STARTUP WINDSURF

OpenAI plans to acquire AI coding tool Windsurf for $3 billion to enhance its generative AI capabilities.

LIQUID V1 7B (HUGGING FACE HUB)

Liquid is a multimodal LLM that integrates visual comprehension and generation by tokenizing images into discrete codes.

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MOONDREAM 2.0 RELEASE

MoonDream is a small, 2B parameter VLM that outperforms many open and closed models. It has recently gotten a strong upgrade on chartQA and a number of other useful benchmarks.

OPENAI EXPLORES SOCIAL NETWORK

OpenAI is testing an internal prototype of a ChatGPT-integrated social feed focused on image generation, potentially expanding into a standalone social network.

NVIDIA H20 EXPORTS TO CHINA RESTRICTED

The U.S. now requires Nvidia to obtain a license for exporting its H20 AI chips to China, citing potential misuse in supercomputers.

TXGEMMA OPEN MODEL FOR THERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT

Google has released another model based on its suite of Gemma models. This one is tuned to help discover therapeutic treatments in medical sciences. It outperforms most specialized and all open generalized models.

DATA DECIDE

AllenAI has released a tool that can be used to help decide which data to include in pre-training. This framework is quite useful for understanding what goes into a filtering run for pre-training.

CONVERSION RATE PREDICTION IN AD SYSTEMS

Pinterest researchers have proposed a multitask framework that uses Deep Hierarchical Ensemble Networks to improve CVR predictions in ad systems. It shows state-of-the-art results through feature combination and auxiliary learning.

OPEN SOURCE OPENAI PRODUCTION KERNELS (GITHUB PR)

OpenAI has open sourced some of its fp4 and MoE kernels to the Triton language GitHub.

NEMOTRON H MODELS (HUGGING FACE HUB)

Nvidia's ADLR team has released the weights for the hybrid mamba Nemotron models, which have strong long context performance and decent general benchmark abilities.

AUTO DEPLOY

A new way to transform PyTorch and Hugging Face models into a faster, deployable, format for fast inference.

OPENAI'S UPDATES PREPAREDNESS FRAMEWORK

OpenAI has revised its safety strategy and introduced sharper risk categories, stronger evaluation processes, and new guidelines for managing advanced AI capabilities.

CANADA HAS ANSWER TO ENERGY NEEDS IN AI RACE, EX-GOOGLE CEO SAYS

Canada has 250 data centers and aims to expand by leveraging its abundant energy resources, like hydro and nuclear. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre advocates for increased resource production to boost economic benefits domestically.

JACK MA ADVOCATES FOR AI TO SERVE HUMANITY, NOT DOMINATE

Jack Ma advocates for AI development focused on enhancing human life, warning against technologies that dominate. He urges global collaboration to create ethical guidelines, ensuring AI complements rather than replaces human capabilities. His call reflects broader public sentiment favoring technology that supports societal welfare.

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NOTION LAUNCHES AI-POWERED EMAIL

Notion Mail is a Gmail-integrated client that helps users manage, search, and reply to email using AI.

OPENAI SLASHES AI MODEL SAFETY TESTING TIME

OpenAI has reduced the time and resources for safety testing its AI models, raising concerns over rushed releases without proper safeguards.

CHATGPT BECAME THE MOST DOWNLOADED APP GLOBALLY IN MARCH

ChatGPT became the most downloaded non-gaming app in March, surpassing Instagram and TikTok with 46 million downloads.

OPENAI GPT-4.1

OpenAI has launched three new models in its API: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano. These models outperform GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o mini across the board, with major gains in coding and instruction following. They also have larger context windows—supporting up to 1 million tokens of context—and are able to better use that context with improved long-context comprehension. They feature a refreshed knowledge cutoff of June 2024.

HUGGING FACE ACQUIRES POLLEN ROBOTICS

Hugging Face, the center of the open source AI community, has long stated its goal is to be a decentralized DeepMind. While this isn't exactly the case, adding in an open source robotics platform via Pollen moves it closer to that goal.

DOLPHINGEMMA

DeepMind has announced DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google that helps scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they're saying, too.

SEAWEED-7B: COST-EFFECTIVE TRAINING OF VIDEO GENERATION FOUNDATION MODEL

The ByteDance team has released a paper showing how to train a competitive 7B parameter video generation model on a “modest” compute budget of 655k H100 hours. It has strong performance on a number of temporally difficult tasks.

PIXELFLOW: PIXEL-SPACE GENERATIVE MODELS WITH FLOW

Most generative models on continuous signals operate in latent space due to computational constraints. This work introduces a series of cascades that allow the generation to happen directly in pixel space. This eliminates the need for a pretrained VAE.

INTERACTVLM: 3D INTERACTION REASONING FROM 2D FOUNDATIONAL MODELS

New VLM that can reason about contacts between humans in 3D and objects. It does so by leveraging a strong base model and lifting its reasoning into 3D with clever multi-view rendering.

3B PARAMETER TOKENIZER

Scaling up image tokenizers is challenging because they tend to collapse. This work introduces GigaTok, which is a massive tokenizer with superior reconstruction performance. Decoder scaling and regularization helped with stability and overall quality.

IMPROVED MOE WITH C3PO

C3PO introduces a new test-time optimization technique that improves accuracy in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs by re-mixing expert weights based on similar reference samples.