Three huge announcements and their implications: The Stargate Project, OpenAI's Operator, and the rise of DeepSeek R1. Also: Synthesia is now the UK's most valuable generative AI company, an overview of Microsoft's new rStar-Math technique, and more.
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.
DeepSeek's newly released Janus-Pro model family, featuring 1.5B and 7B parameter versions, achieves state-of-the-art performance in image understanding and generation benchmarks, making it an efficient and commercially accessible alternative to larger models like DALL-E 3.
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Databricks, Decart, Perplexity, and Anysphere all raised new funding; Google gave no breaks to OpenAI and launched a reasoning model and Veo 2; Grammarly acquired Coda; GitHub Copilot introduced a new free tier; Instagram is planning to launch Movie Gen-powered features; and more.
Google's advances in agentic AI and the Gemini 2.0 Flash launch; two startups working on transformer-based models alternatives closed funding rounds; Claude 3.5 Haiku is generally available; Reddit introduced its conversational AI; and more.
