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OpenAI Unveils o3 Model and Becomes First to Crack the ARC-AGI Benchmark in 5 Years
On the final day of the “12 days of OpenAI” announcements, OpenAI revealed the biggest update. OpenAI announced the o3 and o3-mini reasoning models, and most notably, OpenAI made history as o3 became the first AI model to crack the hallowed ARC-AGI benchmark, breaking a five-year unbeaten streak. Image Credit: OpenAI via YouTube On the ARC-AGI Semi-Private Evaluation Set, OpenAI’s…
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Google Drops Its First “Reasoning” Model to Take On OpenAI o1
After OpenAI introduced its o1 reasoning model that takes some time to “think” before responding, Google has now finally released its own version of the thinking model. The new AI model is “Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking” aka gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-1219. It’s an experimental preview model, and already available on AI Studio for testing and feedback. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model follows…
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Google Releases Veo 2 Video Generation Model to Rival Sora
Google has finally released its AI video generation model called Veo 2 to rival OpenAI’s Sora model. Unlike Sora which can generate 20-second clips up to 1080p resolution, Google’s Veo 2 model can produce minutes-long videos at stunning 4K resolution. Importantly, Google says Veo 2 understands “real-world physics” and “the nuances of human movement and expression” for improved realism. In…
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Microsoft introduces Phi-4, an AI model for advanced reasoning tasks – Computerworld
“The goal with Phi-4 is to explore the efficiency of smaller models while maintaining accuracy,” Microsoft researchers noted in the technical documentation. Microsoft’s Phi-4 competes directly with models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash, each catering to specific applications in the small language model landscape. While GPT-4o Mini is designed for cost-efficient…
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OpenAI expands multi-modal capabilities with updated text-to-video model – Computerworld
“The true power of GenAI will be in realizing its multi-model capabilities,” said Sharath Srinivasamurthy, associate vice president at IDC. “Since OpenAI was lagging behind its competitors in text to video, this move was needed to stay relevant and compete.” However, both Google and Meta outpaced OpenAI in making their models publicly reviewable, even though Sora was first introduced in…
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The new Llama 3.3 70B model has just dropped — here’s why it’s a big deal
Meta has just dropped its Llama 3.3 70B model, providing further proof that open models continue to close the gap with proprietary rivals. It’s only been released in a 70B parameter version but its benchmark performance puts it not far off the older Llama 3.1 405B, and it even ranks above OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 in some…
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Sora v2 could be about to drop — fresh leak hints at new OpenAI video model
Over the weekend, a video appeared on X that claimed to include footage from Sora v2, a new version of the yet-to-be-released AI video model from OpenAI. OpenAI first unveiled Sora earlier this year to much fanfare. At a time when the best AI video models generated 3-5 seconds of footage that just resembled real movement, Sora offered near-photorealistic footage…
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Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer
The popular Ultralytics YOLO11 AI model was compromised in a supply chain attack to deploy cryptominers on devices running versions 8.3.41 and 8.3.42 from the Python Package Index (PyPI) Ultralytics is a software development company specializing in computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI), specifically in object detection and image processing. It’s best known for its “YOLO” (You Only Look Once)…
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Your PC Can’t Handle Meta’s New Llama AI Model (Probably)
Meta has released Llama 3.3 70B, a modified version of the company’s most powerful AI model that can be downloaded to run on your own hardware. Your PC probably isn’t ready for it, though. Like many other large language models (LLMs), Meta’s Llama generative AI model is available in several parameter sizes for different use cases. For example, the smallest…
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OpenAI announces ’12 days of OpenAI’ with a new product or model every day
ChatGPT maker OpenAI just announced a new “12 days of OpenAI” event, revealing a new model or feature every weekday for the next two weeks. The AI lab has remained tight-lipped on specifics, but this could include any number of previously hinted at or revealed technologies that have remained hidden away due to anything from misinformation risk to the cost…
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