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So-called reasoning models are more efficient but not more capable than regular LLMs, study finds
RLVR helps repetition, not generalization AI researcher Nathan Lambert describes the findings as consistent with expectations. "This isn’t a new intuition," he writes, "but a nice new set of results." ...
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AWS reportedly faces customer frustration over Anthropic usage limits
Customers are expressing frustration with Amazon Web Services over constraints in its AI platform Bedrock, according to a report from The Information. Despite AWS investing in Anthropic, the company ...
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Alibaba’s VACE AI model aims to become the universal tool for video generation and editing
Scientists at Alibaba Group have introduced VACE, a general-purpose AI model designed to handle a broad range of video generation and editing tasks within a single system. The model’s backbone is an ...
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ChatGPT Search reaches approximately 41 million monthly users in the EU
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search recorded approximately 41.3 million monthly users in the European Union over the six-month period ending in March 2025, according to the company’s own data. The figure ...
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Google’s AI Overviews are quietly draining clicks from top sites, new data shows
New analysis from Ahrefs shows Google’s "AI Overviews" are driving down clicks to top-ranked websites by over 34%, directly contradicting Google’s own claims. A recent analysis from Ahrefs suggests ...
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Go read this to learn how reinforcement learning makes LLMs better at reasoning
AI researcher Sebastian Raschka has published a new analysis that looks at how reinforcement learning is used to improve reasoning in large language models (LRMs). In a blog post, he describes how ...
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Grok 3 Mini turns up the heat as AI price wars push model costs even lower
xAI is making a push on efficient AI with the release of Grok 3 Mini, its newest language model. Both Grok 3 and its Mini sibling are available through the xAI API. The Grok 3 family currently ...
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The next leap in AI depends on agents that learn by doing, not just by reading what humans wrote
Richard S. Sutton's "Bitter Lesson" lays out a hard truth at the heart of modern AI: Not the clever injection of human knowledge, but scalable learning and search algorithms are what deliver lasting ...
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Students delegate higher-level thinking to AI, Anthropic study finds
A new study from Anthropic examines how university students are using its language model Claude in daily academic work. The analysis reveals discipline-specific usage patterns and raises concerns ...
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OpenAI's o3 achieves near-perfect performance on long context benchmark
With support for up to 200,000 tokens, o3 is the first model to achieve a perfect 100 percent on the Fiction.live benchmark using 128,000 tokens—that’s roughly 96,000 words. For any language model ...
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BitNet: Microsoft shows how to put AI models on a diet
BitNet b1.58 2B4T is a new language model from Microsoft designed to operate with minimal energy and memory usage. Unlike conventional language models that rely on 16- or 32-bit floating point numbers ...
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GPT-4o makes beautiful images but fails basic reasoning tests, UCLA study finds
Despite recent progress in image generation quality, the empirical analysis reveals notable weaknesses in how GPT-4o handles complex prompts. Researchers evaluated the model across three categories: ...