General
- DOE Announces Site Selection for AI Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Development on Federal Lands. Four sites were selected: Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and Savannah River Site.
- OpenAI is building a datacenter in Europe: Introducing Stargate Norway.
Research Insights
- Hierarchical Reasoning Model. Reportedly good performance on ARC-AGI 1 &2, using just 27M params.
- Google paper provides insight into how LLMs can do in-context adaptation: Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning. They find that the transformer architecture leads to each token generating a “temporary patch” that steers the model, as if it were fine-tuned on the context data.
- New paper with a bold claim: AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery. They claim that searches through different AI/Ml architectures can consistently yield discoveries/improvements, including surprises humans might not have considered.
LLM
Safety
Audio
- Suno launches Suno Radio. Constant stream of community music.
Video
- Runway introduce Aleph, a chat-based contextual video transforming system (example uses).
- Luma introduce Modify with Instructions, chat-based contextual video transformation. (Comparison of Runway Aleph and Luma Modify.)
- Memories.ai introduces a Large Visual Memory Model. The claim is that it enables reasoning over video with nearly unlimited context length. This is accomplished by generating concise semantic codes for each frame, allowing search over long videos.
- Wan 2.2 released, an open-source MoE video generation model (github, huggingface).
World Synthesis
- Hunyuan announce Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0 (github, huggingface). Currently supports movement within a small circle from the initial viewpoint. But helps point the way towards more general-purpose sims.
Science
- Towards physician-centered oversight of conversational diagnostic AI.
- Google introduces: AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail.
Hardware
Robots
- Unitree R1 humanoid now available (6k$).
- Chinese home appliance maker Haier launches a humanoid robot.
- LimX have a new design: Oli (22k$).