AI Daily Brief — 19 August 2025
DeepSeek quietly drops V3.1 in a WeChat post — 685B-parameter hybrid model unifying V3 and R1 (thinking + non-thinking in one architecture), 128K context, MoE with…
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Cohere deepens partnership with Government of Canada
Cohere and Government of Canada sign Memorandum of Understanding to transform the public sector with sovereign AI.
AI Daily Brief — 18 August 2025
SoftBank takes $2B stake in Intel at $23/share — ~2% of outstanding shares, stock jumps ~9-10%. Intel adds to SoftBank chip portfolio alongside NVIDIA, TSMC, Arm.…
Welcome @_kevinlu to the team! Exciting to work together again.
Welcome @_kevinlu to the team! Exciting to work together again.Kevin Lu: I recently joined @thinkymachines -- super excited to work with the team, I think we…
Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD We are excited to introduce Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image. Built upon our 20B Qwen-Image model, Qwen-Image-Edit…
From Cloud to Keyboard: LEAP Expands to Laptops with Cutting-Edge AMD Ryzen™ Power | Liquid AI
Liquid AI, the MIT-born leader in efficient foundation models, today announced native support for AMD’s latest Ryzen™ and Ryzen AI™ processors within the Liquid Edge AI…
AI Daily Brief — 17 August 2025
Anthropic gives Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end abusive conversations — "model welfare" feature, first major lab to ship such a safeguard. ChatGPT…
AI Daily Brief — 16 August 2025
A quiet Saturday dominated by the rolling aftermath of OpenAI's GPT-5 rollout. Weekend coverage of Altman's SF reporters dinner spills out — admissions OpenAI "totally screwed…
AI Daily Brief — 15 August 2025
Sam Altman tells reporters at SF dinner OpenAI will spend "trillions of dollars" on data centers in the "not very distant future" — admits OpenAI "totally…
Building AI agents in finance: Reshaping financial services
Financial teams are unlocking a new era of compliance, efficiency, and customer trust—powered by AI agents.
Elo ratings beyond arena-style evaluations
Insights and best practices for using Elo scoring methods for evaluation leaderboards.
AI Daily Brief — 14 August 2025
Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuation led by Radical Ventures and Inovia with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures participating. Joëlle Pineau (ex-Meta FAIR head) joins as…
Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuation to accelerate enterprise efficiency with agentic AI
Fresh funding enables Cohere to accelerate its global expansion and build the next generation of secure enterprise and sovereign AI solutions.
Windsurf Wave 12: Devin features in Windsurf
DeepWiki, Vibe and Replace, Dev Containers, and more!
How DINOv3 is helping World Resources Institute restore forests and farms globally
WRI and the Bezos Earth Fund used DINOv3 to develop an algorithm to accurately count individual trees from drone and satellite imagery.
Small robots, mighty vision: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DINOv2-enabled robot rovers and the future of planetary exploration
Using DINOv2, the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a convenient robot operating system interface for robotic tasks.
DINOv3: Self-supervised learning for vision at unprecedented scale
DINOv3 scales self-supervised learning for images to create universal vision backbones that achieve absolute state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains, including web and satellite imagery.
AI Daily Brief — 13 August 2025
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman publishes Apple AI-comeback scoop — 2027 tabletop robot (7-inch display on a motorized arm), smart-home hub for 2026, home-security cameras, lifelike Siri with…
AI Daily Brief — 12 August 2025
Anthropic offers Claude to all three branches of US government for $1/year via a GSA OneGov deal — matches OpenAI's federal land-grab from a week earlier.…
Pretraining Data Filtering for Open-Weight AI Safety
Announcing Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
LFM2-VL: Efficient Vision-Language Models | Liquid AI
Today, we release LFM2-VL, our first series of vision-language foundation models. These multimodal models are designed for low-latency and device-aware deployment. LFM2-VL extends the LFM2 family…
AI Daily Brief — 11 August 2025
OpenAI quietly restores GPT-4o for ChatGPT Plus via a "show legacy models" setting — Altman concedes the company underestimated how much users valued GPT-4o's tone and…
AI Daily Brief — 10 August 2025
Sam Altman publishes a long X thread on users' emotional attachment to specific AI models — justifying OpenAI's decision to bring GPT-4o back for Plus subscribers.…
Announcing Replicate's remote MCP server
Use our MCP to discover, compare, and run models from apps like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code.