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…
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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…
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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…
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AI Daily Brief — 19 March 2025
GTC Day 3 fans out: Llama Nemotron Nano/Super/Ultra open reasoning models, Dynamo inference framework, Newton physics engine with DeepMind and Disney, Spectrum-X silicon photonics, NVAQC Boston…
AI Daily Brief — 18 March 2025
Jensen's GTC keynote: Blackwell Ultra GB300, Vera Rubin roadmap to 2027, Isaac GR00T N1 open humanoid model, Dynamo open inference framework, Newton physics engine with DeepMind…
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AI Daily Brief — 17 March 2025
Mistral Small 3.1 24B drops with Apache 2.0 license, 128K context and multimodal. Roblox open-sources Cube 3D foundation model. NVIDIA GTC 2025 + GDC 2025 both…
AI Daily Brief — 16 March 2025
Baidu releases Ernie 4.5 and X1 reasoning model. NVIDIA GTC 2025 opens with pre-conference workshops in San Jose ahead of Jensen's keynote on Tuesday. Otherwise a…
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AI Daily Brief — 15 March 2025
Quiet Saturday before NVIDIA GTC 2025. White House AI Action Plan public comment window closes at midnight with 10,000+ submissions logged. The industry holds its breath…
AI Daily Brief — 14 March 2025
Apple Siri chief Robby Walker calls AI delays 'ugly and embarrassing' in leaked all-hands. Sesame CSM-1B continues echoing through speech-AI press. The industry holds its breath…
AI Daily Brief — 13 March 2025
Cohere releases Command A — 111B parameters, 256K context, runs on 2 H100s. Sesame open-sources CSM-1B conversational speech model under Apache 2.0. Insilico Medicine closes $110M…
AI Daily Brief — 12 March 2025
Google releases the Gemma 3 family (1B/4B/12B/27B) — multimodal, 128K context, 140 languages. DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. Sakana AI's AI Scientist-v2 passes ICLR…
AI Daily Brief — 11 March 2025
OpenAI's full agent stack lands: Responses API, open-source Agents SDK, plus built-in web search, file search and computer-use tools. Celestial AI raises $250M Series C1 at…
AI Daily Brief — 10 March 2025
Foxconn unveils FoxBrain, Taiwan's first Traditional Chinese reasoning LLM. Reflection AI exits stealth with $130M to chase autonomous coding agents. Magnificent 7 sell-off hits Tesla -15%.…
AI Daily Brief — 09 March 2025
Sunday turned into Manus's first reality check. TechCrunch's hands-on review under the headline "probably isn't China's second DeepSeek moment" — testing four tasks that all failed…
AI Daily Brief — 08 March 2025
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AI Daily Brief — 07 March 2025
Friday delivered Manus day-two — the viral hype peaked, then the technical reverse-engineering started. Victor Mustar called it "the most impressive AI tool I've ever tried."…
AI Daily Brief — 06 March 2025
Thursday delivered the year's biggest Chinese agent debut, the most aggressive Western OCR drop, and the first credible RL-reasoning open-weights challenger to DeepSeek-R1. Manus AI launched.…