My Favorites This Week
DeepSeek R1
Jan 24, 2025
DeepSeek R1, an open-source reasoning model, has been released. It reportedly performs at or even surpasses OpenAI's o1 model on specific benchmarks at a fraction of the cost!
OpenAI Operator Agent
Jan 24, 2025
Operator, an AI agent, can perform various tasks on the web, such as shopping for airline tickets and making restaurant reservations.
Other Releases
Claude Citation API Feature
Jan 24, 2025
Anthropic introduced Citations, a new API feature for Claude. This enhancement allows Claude to ground its responses in source documents, enabling it to reference specific sentences and passages used in its outputs, thereby enhancing the trustworthiness of its responses.
AnthropicAI Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API
Google’s Imagen 3 on Freepik
Jan 24, 2025
Freepik integrated Google’s latest AI image generator, Imagen 3, into its AI suite.
Perplexity Assistant
Jan 24, 2025
Perplexity introduced an agent called Perplexity Assistant. This agent uses reasoning, search capabilities, and access to various apps to assist users with their daily tasks.
ByteDance Doubao 1.5 Pro and UI-TARS
Jan 24, 2025
ByteDance unveiled Doubao 1.5 Pro, a multimodal AI model that competes with top competitors such as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
ByteDance also released UI-TARS, a GUI AI agent that possesses reasoning capabilities and can perform computer interactions.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
Jan 22, 2025
Google DeepMind has released their new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an AI model that excels in mathematics, scientific reasoning, and multimodal benchmarks.
Stargate Project
Jan 22, 2025
Stargate Project, a newly launched company, is planning to invest $500 billion over the next four years in developing cutting-edge AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. This initiative has gathered support from a group of initial equity investors, including SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX.
OpenAI Announcing The Stargate Project
Tendent Hunyuan3D 2.0
Jan 21, 2025
Tencent announced Hunyuan3D 2.0, a revolutionary platform for 3D asset creation. This open-source system seamlessly integrates advanced shape generation with realistic texture synthesis, resulting in exceptionally detailed and lifelike 3D models. Moreover, it supports the conversion of sketches into 3D models and character animation.
huggingface tencent/Hunyuan3D-2 · Hugging Face
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