AI Daily Brief — 1 April 2025
Sam Altman teases OpenAI's first open-weight model since GPT-2 — public feedback form opened. OpenAI Academy launches as a free AI learning platform. Amazon unveils Nova…
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AI Daily Brief — 31 March 2025
OpenAI closes $40B SoftBank-led round at $300B post-money — largest private tech raise on record, with a December restructuring cliff. Runway ships Gen-4 with reference-image character…
AI Daily Brief — 30 March 2025
Sam Altman tweets 'can yall please chill on generating images, this is insane, our team needs sleep.' The Ghibli wave peaks. OpenAI $40B SoftBank-led round wired…
Frequently Asked Questions about My Writing Process
How I started, why I write, who I write for, how I write, and more.
AI Daily Brief — 29 March 2025
Quiet Saturday — the Studio Ghibli wave keeps cresting and OpenAI's rate limits stay in effect. No frontier-lab releases, no funding rounds dated to the day.…
First Look at Reasoning From Scratch: Chapter 1
Welcome to the next stage of large language models (LLMs): reasoning. LLMs have transformed how we process and generate text, but their success has been largely…
AI Daily Brief — 28 March 2025
xAI acquires X in all-stock merger — $80B for xAI, $33B for X, combined entity $113B under xAI Holdings Corp. CoreWeave (CRWV) debuts on Nasdaq at…
AI Daily Brief — 27 March 2025
Anthropic ships a landmark double-paper on Claude 3.5 Haiku's internal mechanisms — circuit tracing, multistep planning, cross-linguistic generalization. CoreWeave prices its IPO at $40/share, raising $1.5B…
QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction Last December, we launched QVQ-72B-Preview as an exploratory model, but it had many issues. Today, we are officially…
AI Daily Brief — 26 March 2025
OpenAI delays 4o image gen rollout to Free tier as demand 'wayyyy more popular than we expected.' Alibaba open-sources Qwen2.5-Omni-7B end-to-end multimodal model under Apache 2.0.…
Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It All!
QWEN CHAT HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DASHSCOPE GITHUB PAPER DEMO DISCORD We release Qwen2.5-Omni, the new flagship end-to-end multimodal model in the Qwen series. Designed for comprehensive…
Moving To Substack
I’m freezing this blog and starting to post on my Substack instead. The authoring experience is much more convenient for me there. Please follow me there,…
Build Fast with Text-to-Speech AI – Dialog Model on Groq
Build Fast with Text-to-Speech AI – Dialog Model on Groq
AI Daily Brief — 25 March 2025
Frontier collision day. OpenAI ships native 4o image generation in ChatGPT and Sora, killing DALL-E 3. Google DeepMind drops Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental — #1 on…
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone.…
AI Daily Brief — 24 March 2025
DeepSeek drops V3-0324 on Hugging Face with no model card, no blog, MIT license, 685GB weights — Aider polyglot jumps 9.3, AIME jumps 19.8. Runs on…
AI Daily Brief — 23 March 2025
Quiet Sunday before a big Monday. Western press finally catches up on Tencent's Hunyuan-T1 reasoning model. xAI Grok standalone app continues weekend rollout. No fresh announcements…
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction At the end of January this year, we launched the Qwen2.5-VL series of models, which received widespread attention…
AI Daily Brief — 22 March 2025
Quiet Saturday after a heavy GTC week. xAI launches a standalone Grok iOS app, decoupling the chatbot from X for the first time. No major frontier-lab…
RT Kai-Fu Lee: The biggest revelation from Deepseek is that Open Source has won. For a 1% difference in performance, it will be difficult for OpenAI t…
RT Kai-Fu LeeThe biggest revelation from Deepseek is that Open Source has won. For a 1% difference in performance, it will be difficult for OpenAI to…
AI Daily Brief — 21 March 2025
Tencent ships Hunyuan-T1 — first ultra-large hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE reasoning model, matching DeepSeek-R1 and beating GPT-4.5 on MMLU-Pro at ~99% lower price than o1. NVIDIA closes…
AI Daily Brief — 20 March 2025
NVIDIA hosts inaugural Quantum Day at GTC with D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum and others sharing a stage. Anthropic ships web search for Claude. Foxconn showcases…
RT Kai-Fu Lee: DeepSeek is becoming a Windows kernel demanded by businesses, but http://01.AI is aspired to build the Windows system and interface to …
RT Kai-Fu LeeDeepSeek is becoming a Windows kernel demanded by businesses, but http://01.AI is aspired to build the Windows system and interface to ignite it. Check…
The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations
A new tool that improves Claude's complex problem-solving performance