AI Daily Brief — 25 January 2025
Saturday was the calm-before-the-crash day. With US markets closed, DeepSeek's app daily active users surged more than 110% versus the prior week and weekly unique web…
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AI Daily Brief — 24 January 2025
Friday closed Davos with AI as the dominant theme and silicon as the unsolved bottleneck. Jensen Huang called AI "the largest infrastructure buildout in human history."…
R1+Sonnet set SOTA on aider’s polyglot benchmark
R1+Sonnet has set a new SOTA on the aider polyglot benchmark. At 14X less cost compared to o1.
AI Daily Brief — 23 January 2025
Thursday rewrote US AI policy and launched the year's first headline agentic-AI product. Trump signed Executive Order 14179 revoking Biden's October 2023 Safe AI EO. OpenAI…
AI Daily Brief — 22 January 2025
Wednesday delivered three simultaneous shocks. ByteDance released Doubao 1.5 Pro at API prices roughly 50x below GPT-4o and 200x below OpenAI o1. DeepSeek-R1 and Moonshot's Kimi…
AI Daily Brief — 21 January 2025
Day Two of the Trump administration delivered the Stargate Project — a $500-billion four-year US AI infrastructure joint venture announced at the White House by Trump,…
AI Daily Brief — 20 January 2025
Inauguration day delivered the single most consequential 24 hours in open-source AI history alongside a wholesale rewrite of US AI policy. DeepSeek released R1 and R1-Zero…
Global-batch load balance almost free lunch to improve your MoE LLM training
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Background The Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) architecture has become a popular model-parameter-scale-up technique. Typically, one MoE layer consists of a router (often parameterized…
AI Daily Brief — 19 January 2025
Sunday was the calm-before-the-storm day. TikTok restored US service after Trump publicly committed to a Day-1 executive order pausing enforcement; the app came back without ByteDance's…
AI Daily Brief — 18 January 2025
Saturday went dark — literally. At roughly 10:30 PM ET, TikTok voluntarily blacked out service for about 170 million US users. The most consequential AI-adjacent signal…
AI Daily Brief — 17 January 2025
Friday delivered a unanimous Supreme Court, a White House staffing pick, an FTC inquiry result, and a Google DeepMind paper that would influence the year's inference-time…
AI Daily Brief — 16 January 2025
Thursday's anchor came from Hsinchu: TSMC walked the Street through a blockbuster Q4 — revenue up 38.8% YoY, 59% gross margin, record AI-accelerator demand — and…
Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications
As we’re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it’s normal to make mistakes. This is a quick note with examples of…
AI Daily Brief — 15 January 2025
Wednesday brought MiniMax-01's public open-weights drop — and with it the year's first credible Chinese open-source punch at GPT-4o pricing. The Diffusion Rule formally published in…
Using uv as an installer
Reliably packaging & distributing python CLI tools is hard. Aider uses uv in novel ways to make it easy to install the aider CLI, its dependencies…
AI Daily Brief — 14 January 2025
Tuesday's headline was Biden's second AI executive order in two days — EO 14141, directing the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to lease federal…
AI Daily Brief — 13 January 2025
Monday delivered the year's most consequential policy day so far. The outgoing Biden administration published the sweeping "Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion" — a tiered global…
Towards Effective Process Supervision in Mathematical Reasoning
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable advances in mathematical reasoning, yet they can make mistakes, such…
AI Daily Brief — 12 January 2025
Sunday was quieter still. The week ahead would carry the Biden AI Diffusion Rule and the start of an unusually loud calendar; today, Washington and industry…
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
AI Daily Brief — 11 January 2025
A genuine Saturday lull. No frontier-lab announcements, no model weights, no funding closes — but the industry was visibly bracing for the outgoing Biden administration's AI…
AI Daily Brief — 10 January 2025
Friday delivered the year's first earnings shock and the launch that would later reshape the global AI conversation. TSMC posted a blowout Q4, with full-year 2024…
AI Daily Brief — 09 January 2025
Thursday was thinner. xAI rolled out a standalone Grok iOS app worldwide — moving Grok off the X platform and into a dedicated consumer app after…
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