Meta just announced LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated entirely to generative AI, set for April 29. The event will showcase the latest in its open-source AI roadmap as Mark Zuckerberg prepares to launch reasoning and multimodal Llama models to fend off rising open-weight competition like DeepSeek.
Baidu just announced plans to open-source its upcoming Ernie 4.5 large language model series on June 30. The models will roll out to users over the coming months before the code is released. The shift comes shortly after DeepSeek-R1 shook up the industry, putting pressure on tech giants to rethink their open-source AI strategies.
The US and UK just refused to sign a declaration on safe and trustworthy AI at the Paris summit, breaking away from around 60 other participating nations. US Vice President JD Vance explicitly warned against overly precautionary rules and vowed to keep AI dominance inside America. Why it matters: Global consensus on tech guardrails is fracturing as the race for dominance heats up.
Krea AI just rolled out Krea Chat, an open beta tool powered by DeepSeek that brings image and video creation directly into a conversational interface. Users can generate visuals from text, borrow styles from uploaded references, or convert generated images into short video clips. It is free to try with a registered account, though compute limits apply.
OpenAI just updated the chain of thought for o3-mini, revealing far more reasoning steps to both free and paid ChatGPT users. While it still holds back raw internal monologues to prevent distillation, a new post-processing layer cleans up unsafe output and translates the thought process into non-English native languages.
DeepSeek just launched DeepSeek-R1, an open-weight reasoning model that matches OpenAI-o1's performance on math, code, and reasoning. It arrives under a permissive MIT license alongside six distilled smaller models, with chat and API access live immediately. Basically, developers can now freely commercialize and distill frontier-level reasoning outputs without restrictions.
DeepSeek just launched its official mobile app on the iOS App Store and major Android marketplaces, giving users free access to its 671-billion-parameter DeepSeek-V3 model. The app supports web search, deep thinking mode, and file and image scanning. It basically turns one of open source's hottest models into a free, pocket-sized ChatGPT rival.
DeepSeek just launched DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, delivering OpenAI o1-preview-level performance on AIME and MATH benchmarks. The model lets users watch its thought process unfold in real time, with open-source weights and API access slated to arrive soon.
DeepSeek just open-sourced DeepSeek Coder V2, an MoE-based code model supporting 338 languages and a 128K context window. It beat GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 1.5 Pro on major coding benchmarks like HumanEval and MBPP+, marking a rare open-source victory over leading proprietary models. Available under the MIT license in 16B and 236B sizes.
