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This report outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing OpenAI o1 and o1-mini, including external red teaming and frontier risk evaluations according to OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.

Perplexity has added over a dozen international news organizations to its Publishers' Program, offering tools, revenue sharing, and support to strengthen collaboration with global media.

DeepMind's Genie 2 is an advanced AI model that generates diverse, interactive 3D worlds from images and text descriptions. The model is particularly adept at simulating complex elements like physics and NPC behavior, setting it apart from similar models by maintaining scene consistency. Positioned as a research tool, Genie 2 is designed for prototyping interactive experiences and evaluating AI agents.

Paligemma 2 is one of the best VLMs on the market today. It uses SigLIP and Gemma.

The Asymmetric Semantic Aligning Network (ASANet) improves land cover classification using both SAR and RGB images.

Researchers have developed a training-free method to make multi-modal language models (LLMs) more efficient without sacrificing much performance. Their approach reduces computational demands by up to 7 times by smartly merging and pruning visual data tokens.

With the rise of AI and evolving customer expectations, businesses have to move beyond temporary fixes and adopt a culture of continuous transformation. Get the guide by Camunda to find out how to align stakeholders, leverage technology and data, and embed a mindset of continuous change. Read the guide

ScoreLiDAR is a new method that speeds up 3D LiDAR scene completion for autonomous vehicles.

DeepMind has open sourced its GraphCast algorithm, which is substantially better and faster at localized weather prediction at 36 hours. It also runs in a fraction of the time.

This project advances visual anagram generation - images that change appearance when flipped or rotated - by refining how diffusion models handle multiple viewpoints.

The newest Fish Audio 1.5 is currently #2 on Text To Speech Leaderboards behind ElevenLabs. It supports voice cloning and is fast to run, although the output quality seems hit or miss.

Three key Google NotebookLM members have left to start a new stealth AI venture. The startup aims to leverage the latest AI models to create consumer-facing, user-first AI products. It remains in its early stages without a clear focus or announced funding.

OpenAI and defense company Anduril have partnered to create a national security-based AI.

AI in the real world isn't just ChatGPT. It's building robust systems with firm guardrails and solving practical challenges around inference, data, and models. Watch the recorded presentation from AI_IRL London.

A collection of research papers and projects on large language model-brained GUI agents.

Ruliad has released a small reasoning model that takes extra time to think through problems.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated at the DealBook Summit that Artificial General Intelligence might impact everyday life less significantly than expected.