Google has integrated NotebookLM Plus, the wildly popular AI-powered notebook and research assistant, into its Google One AI Premium subscription plan at no additional cost. In addition, the company also introduced a 50% discount on Google One AI Premium for US-based students under 18.
DeepSeek released Janus-Pro, a new iteration of its image generation models; OpenAI strikes strategic partnerships in Asia; Mistral AI has enhanced its Le Chat assistant with new features; Eleven Labs raised a $180M Series C; Tülu 3 showcases Ai2's open source post-training recipe; and more.
A new benchmark based on the NPR's Sunday Puzzle riddles aims to test LLMs' general reasoning skills. The findings are remarkable: reasoning models like OpenAI's o1 do best at the benchmark, and some replicate behaviors such as "giving up" or showing "frustration" when stuck on difficult problems.
AlphaGeometry2 (AG2) is an enhanced neuro-symbolic system for solving geometry problems, which Google DeepMind claims outperforms IMO gold medalists. Although AG2 has some limitations, it undoubtedly has taken DeepMind one step closer to "solving geometry".
Mistral is expanding its AI assistant Le Chat with new iOS and Android apps, a Pro subscription tier, and enterprise features while competing with established players through fast performance and unique capabilities like on-premises deployment.
Tana, an AI-powered productivity app founded by ex-Google employees, has emerged from stealth after gathering $25 million in funding and a 160,000-person waitlist for its platform that automatically organizes user information through a knowledge graph system.
OpenAI and Kakao have formed a strategic partnership to integrate OpenAI's technology into Kakao's services through three main projects: developing a Korean language AI agent, incorporating OpenAI's technology across Kakao's ecosystem, and implementing ChatGPT Enterprise for Kakao's workforce.
OpenAI and SoftBank Group have announced a $3 billion annual partnership to develop and deploy Cristal Intelligence, a new enterprise AI system that will be rolled out across SoftBank's companies and marketed to major Japanese firms through a joint venture.
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized and efficient 24B-parameter open-source language model that matches the performance of models three times its size and can run locally on consumer hardware. Mistral Small 3 is available under an Apache 2.0 license.
OpenAI has launched deep research, a new ChatGPT feature that can independently conduct comprehensive internet research to create detailed, cited reports in minutes rather than hours. Deep research is available for Pro users only, but OpenAI expects to expand access to the other paid tiers shortly.
Manas AI, co-founded by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee and Reid Hoffman, has launched with $24.6 million in seed funding to accelerate cancer drug discovery through its proprietary AI platform and Microsoft partnership.
Tülu 3 is an open-source research project by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) that provides a comprehensive open-source post-training methodology for large language models. The recently released Tülu 3 405B demonstrates that the Tülu 3 post-training recipe is both efficient and scalable.