👀 Multimodal - MiniCPM-o 2.6 is a new sota any-to-any model by OpenBMB (vision, speech and text!) - VideoChat-Flash-Qwen2.5-2B is new video multimodal models by OpenGVLab that come in sizes 2B & 7B in resolutions 224 & 448 - ByteDance released larger SA2VA that comes in 26B parameters - Dataset: VRC-Bench is a new diverse benchmark for multimodal LLM reasoning performance
💬 LLMs - MiniMax-Text-01 is a new huge language model (456B passive 45.9B active params) by MiniMaxAI with context length of 4M tokens 🤯 - Dataset: Sky-T1-data-17k is a diverse dataset used to train Sky-T1-32B - kyutai released Helium-1-Preview-2B is a new small multilingual LM - Wayfarer-12B is a new LLM able to write D&D 🧙🏻♂️ - ReaderLM-v2 is a new HTML parsing model by Jina AI - Dria released, Dria-Agent-a-3B, new agentic coding model (Pythonic function calling) based on Qwen2.5 Coder - Unsloth released Phi-4, faster and memory efficient Llama 3.3
🖼️ Vision - MatchAnything is a new foundation model for matching - FitDit is a high-fidelity VTON model based on DiT architecture
🗣️ Audio - OuteTTS-0.3-1B is a new multilingual text-to-speech model with voice cloning and emotion control capabilities
📖 Retrieval - lightblue released a new reranker based on Qwen2.5 LB-reranker-0.5B-v1.0 that can handle 95+ languages - cde-small-v2 is a new sota small retrieval model by @jxm
@meg, one of the best researchers in AI ethics, makes a critical point about autonomy: fully autonomous systems carry unknowable risks because they operate on computer logic rather than human logic.
The solution? Build systems that support & assist rather than override human decisions.
I highly recommend reading the blog post written by Meg, @evijit@sasha and @giadap. They define different levels of agent autonomy & provide a values-based analysis of risks, benefits, and uses of AI agents to help you make better decisions.
🔥 The AI Agent hype is real! This blog post deep dives into everything you need to know before deploying them: from key definitions to practical recommendations. A must-read for anyone building the future of autonomous systems.
📊 Key insight: A clear table breaking down the 5 levels of AI agents - from simple processors to fully autonomous systems. Essential framework for understanding where your agent stands on the autonomy spectrum
⚖️ Deep analysis of 15 core values reveals critical trade-offs: accuracy, privacy, safety, equity & more. The same features that make agents powerful can make them risky. Understanding these trade-offs is crucial for responsible deployment
🎯 6 key recommendations for the road ahead: - Create rigorous evaluation protocols - Study societal effects - Understand ripple effects - Improve transparency - Open source can make a positive difference - Monitor base model evolution