OpenAI intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT-2 in the coming months, according to a feedback form published on the company’s website. Kyle Wiggers reports that OpenAI is inviting developers, researchers, and community members to provide input on what they’d like to see in this new model. The company plans to host …
Google has unexpectedly made its newest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, available to all users for free, not just premium subscribers. The model has quickly gained recognition for its exceptional reasoning abilities and is currently leading industry benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Pro stands out for its massive 1-million token context window (with plans to expand to …
The Arc Prize Foundation has released ARC-AGI-2, a new benchmark designed to measure artificial general intelligence that has proven extremely difficult for even the most advanced AI systems. This second-generation test specifically evaluates test-time reasoning abilities – requiring AI to adapt to novel, never-before-seen tasks rather than relying on memorization. The results reveal a stark …
Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, describing it as their “most intelligent AI model” to date. The new model represents a significant advancement in Google’s AI capabilities, with a particular focus on reasoning abilities that are now built directly into the system. According to Google’s announcement, Gemini 2.5 models are “thinking models” that can reason …
Tencent Holdings has introduced its Hunyuan T1 AI reasoning model that matches DeepSeek’s R1 in both performance and pricing. According to Coco Feng of the South China Morning Post, the model scored 87.2 points on the MMLU Pro benchmark, surpassing DeepSeek-R1’s 84 points but falling short of OpenAI’s o1 at 89.3 points. Pricing is competitive …
OpenAI has released o1-pro, an upgraded version of its o1 reasoning AI model, available to select developers who have spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, o1-pro costs $150 per million tokens for input and $600 per million tokens for output, making it twice as expensive as GPT-4.5 for …
At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, Nvidia announced a new family of AI models called Llama Nemotron designed to enhance reasoning capabilities for autonomous AI agents. These models are based on Meta’s open-source Llama models but have been refined through post-training optimization techniques to improve their performance in complex tasks such as multistep math, …
Baidu has released two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, claiming they outperform competitors like DeepSeek and OpenAI on various benchmarks while offering significantly lower pricing. Carl Franzen, writing for VentureBeat, reports that ERNIE 4.5 is a multimodal language model while X1 focuses on reasoning capabilities. The models are notably cheaper than competitors, …
Alibaba’s Qwen Team has introduced QwQ-32B, a new open-source language model that matches the performance of much larger models like DeepSeek-R1 despite having significantly fewer parameters. The 32-billion-parameter model, released under the Apache 2.0 license, leverages reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance reasoning capabilities for complex problem-solving tasks. Key features and capabilities QwQ-32B demonstrates impressive performance …
In a comprehensive analysis for Bloomberg, Azeem Azhar explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing our economic model by making expertise abundant and affordable. Azhar, who writes the Exponential View newsletter, argues that AI is the next major step in the historical progression of lowering intelligence costs, following innovations like the printing press and the …