AI-Weekly for Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – Issue 156

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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1.) Top 5 Most Clicked News Articles From Last Week

A.) Gmail Gains An ‘Add To Calendar’ Button, Powered By Gemini | TechCrunch.com | March 10, 2025

A nifty new Gmail capability powered by Google’s Gemini AI has arrived for Google Workspace customers. Starting Monday, users can add events to a Google Calendar directly from an email.

B.) LLM Generates The Entire Output At Once (World’s First Diffusion LLM) | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | March 6, 2025

A groundbreaking diffusion-based large language model (LLM) is capable of generating entire outputs in a single pass, setting a new benchmark in AI efficiency and speed. This development challenges traditional autoregressive models, offering a potential leap forward in text generation technology.

C.) Qwen Launches Qwq-32b: New Reasoning Model Rivals Industry Leaders | Twitter.com | March 5, 2025

Today, we release QwQ-32B, our new reasoning model with only 32 billion parameters that rivals cutting-edge reasoning model, e.g., DeepSeek-R1.

D.) Unveiling the Future of AI Integration: A Deep Dive into Azure OpenAI for .NET Developers | Adit Sheth, Software Engineer, Microsoft Reactor | AI-Weekly.ai | March 10, 2025

In an exciting live session viewed by over 1600+ developers, the possibilities of Azure OpenAI were brought to light, with a special focus on GPT-4o Mini — a powerful AI model that is changing the way .NET developers integrate intelligent capabilities into their applications. The session, aimed at helping developers harness the power of AI, provided valuable insights into how GPT-4o Mini can be used to create smarter applications, from chatbots to content creation tools and even enterprise automation.

E.) Are AI-Generated Video Games Really on the Horizon? | TheGuardian.com | March 10, 2025

Microsoft has introduced Muse, an AI tool designed to streamline game development by generating gameplay videos, allowing designers to experiment more efficiently. Trained on extensive gameplay data from Ninja Theory’s Bleeding Edge, Muse can produce mock gameplay clips that can be adjusted using prompts. However, it currently cannot create entirely new games or playable simulations. Similarly, Google’s GameNGen project developed a playable version of Doom in 2024, operating without a traditional game engine. While innovative, the AI occasionally introduced inaccuracies over extended play sessions. These developments highlight the potential of AI in game design, though fully AI-generated games remain a future prospect.

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5.) Self-Driving SHOWDOWN | TheNeuronDaily.com | March 17, 2025

Grant Harvey reports that former NASA engineer Mark Rober conducted tests comparing LiDAR and Tesla’s camera-based autonomous driving systems. The results showed LiDAR outperforming Tesla’s system, particularly in detecting obstacles like painted walls mimicking open roads, where Tesla’s cameras failed to recognize the illusion, raising concerns about the reliability of camera-only approaches in self-driving technology.

6.) Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Paint Update With Improved CoCreator To Windows Insiders | Blogs.windows.com | March 17, 2025

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out an update for Paint (version 11.2502.121.0) to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11.

7.) OpenAI To Start Testing ChatGPT Connectors For Google Drive And Slack | TechCrunch.com | March 17, 2025

OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT.

8.) Google Adds Its Voice Model Chirp 3 To Its Vertex AI Platform | TechCrunch.com | March 17, 2025

Most of the focus in generative AI has been on text-based interfaces used to generate text, images, and more. The next wave appears to be voice, and it’s rolling in fast. In the latest development, Google today announced that it would be adding Chirp 3 — its speech-to-text and HD text-to-speech models — to its Vertex AI development platform starting next week.

9.) Mac Studio With M3 Ultra Runs Massive Deepseek R1 AI Model Locally | MacRumors.com | March 17, 2025

YouTuber Dave Lee of Dave2D fame has demonstrated how Apple’s new Mac Studio equipped with an M3 Ultra chip can efficiently run a huge version of the DeepSeek R1 AI model locally, provided that users spec the machine with the maximum 512GB of memory.

10.) Roblox’s New AI Model Can Generate 3D Objects | TheVerge.com | March 17, 2025

The model, Cube 3D, creates 3D models from a text prompt.

11.) Microsoft Accidentally Wipes Out Copilot In Latest Windows 11 Update | TheVerge.com | March 17, 2025

You can easily reinstall the Copilot app from the Microsoft Store.

12.) Leveraging Agentic AI To Power The Next Evolution Of Zoom | Zoom.com | March 17, 2025

Learn more about how we’re bringing our agentic AI vision to life and discover how Zoom can help you radically transform your workday for the better.

13.) xAI Acquires Video AI Startup Hotshot To Boost Video Foundation Model Development | X.com | March 17, 2025

We’re excited to announce that @HotshotSupport has been acquired by @xAI. Over the past 2 years we’ve built 3 video foundation models as a small team — Hotshot-XL, Hotshot Act One, and Hotshot.

14.) Mistral Launches Small 3.1: New Multimodal Model Outperforms Gemma 3 And GPT-4 Mini | X.com | March 17, 2025

Introducing Mistral Small 3.1. Multimodal, Apache 2.0, outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT 4o-mini.

15.) Perplexity AI Positions Itself As Go-To Platform For Accurate Information | X.com | March 17, 2025

When you need to get it right, ask Perplexity.

March 16, 2025 📅️

16.) AI Search Problems | TheNeuronDaily.com | March 16, 2025

Grant Harvey reports that a Columbia Journalism Review study tested eight AI search engines and found that these tools incorrectly identified and cited news articles over 60% of the time. Notably, premium models like Perplexity Pro and Grok 3 were more confident but less accurate than free versions, raising concerns about the reliability of AI-generated citations.

17.) Almost Timely News: Transformative Strategy With Generative AI, Part 2 | Chris Penn | YouTube.com | March 16, 2025

This episode of Almost Timely explores the true meaning of business transformation beyond buzzwords. It provides real-world examples to help distinguish genuine transformation from mere improvements and explains when a business must evolve for survival and growth. Viewers will learn how to leverage AI to uncover strategic opportunities for significant change and long-term success.

March 15, 2025 📅️

18.) How To Setup MCP Servers And Tool Use For Agents | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | March 15, 2025

This tutorial walks through the process of setting up MCP servers and utilizing essential tools for agent-based systems. It covers configuration steps, best practices, and troubleshooting tips to optimize performance and efficiency.

19.) Baidu Releases New Reasoning AI Model To Compete Against Deepseek | Bloomberg.com | March 15, 2025

Baidu Inc. released a new artificial intelligence model that articulates its reasoning, in an apparent bid to regain momentum against up-and-coming rivals like DeepSeek.

20.) Bluesky Users Debate Platform’s Proposal On User Data Use For AI Training | TechCrunch.com | March 15, 2025

Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving.

21.) New Botq Facility To Scale Robot Production From 12,000 To 100,000 Units Annually | X.com | March 15, 2025

Today we’re introducing: BotQ. BotQ is our high-volume robot manufacturing facility. Initially designed to produce 12,000 robots per year, it will scale up to support a fleet of 100,000.

March 14, 2025 📅️

22.) Xbox Vs Sony AI Showdown | TheNeuronDaily.com | March 14, 2025

Grant Harvey reports that Sony and Microsoft are integrating AI into gaming, with Sony developing an AI version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West for real-time player interactions, and Microsoft introducing Copilot for Gaming, an AI assistant offering personalized strategies and assistance, set to launch on Xbox in April.

23.) We’ve Finally Entered The Era Of AI Agents! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | March 14, 2025

This week’s AI news highlights the rapid advancements in AI agents, signaling a new era of intelligent automation. The discussion covers breakthroughs in AI tools, their real-world applications, and the transformative impact they are expected to have across industries.

24.) Introduction To Reinforcement Learning (Non Technical) | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | March 14, 2025

This video provides a beginner-friendly introduction to reinforcement learning without requiring a technical background. It explains core concepts, real-world applications, and how AI systems learn through trial and error to optimize decision-making.

25.) Leaked Apple Meeting Shows How Dire The Siri Situation Really Is | TheVerge.com | March 14, 2025

The company is aiming to get some of the AI-powered features announced last June into iOS 19 — but it’s not guaranteed.

26.) OpenAI And Google Ask Government For Permission To Train AI On Content They Don’T Own | TheVerge.com | March 14, 2025

OpenAI argues it needs access to ‘avoid forfeiting’ the lead in AI to China.

27.) Google Assistant On Mobile Devices To Be Upgraded To Gemini | Blog.google | March 14, 2025

We’re upgrading Google Assistant users on mobile to Gemini, offering a new kind of help only possible with the power of AI.

28.) Everything You Say To Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting March 28 | ArsTechnica.com | March 14, 2025

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices.

March 13, 2025 📅️

29.) Gemma Is All You Need | TheNeuronDaily.com | March 13, 2025

Grant Harvey reports that Google has released Gemma 3, a family of open-source AI models designed to run locally on consumer hardware, ranging from smartphones to high-end PCs. Built on the research powering Google’s Gemini 2.0 models, Gemma 3 offers capabilities like image understanding and sets new benchmarks for models of its size, aligning with Google’s push for on-device AI.

30.) Anthropic CEO: “90% Of Code Will Be Written By AI In 6 Months” | Matt Berman | YouTube.com | March 13, 2025

Anthropic’s CEO predicts that AI will generate 90% of all code within the next six months, raising questions about the future of software development. This discussion explores the implications of AI-driven coding, potential job market shifts, and whether traditional programming as we know it is coming to an end.

31.) Anthropic Revamps Chat Playground With New Testing Tools And Search Features | X.com | March 13, 2025

The Chat Playground is now the Prompts Playground — we’ve redesigned it to help you better test, compare, and iterate on prompts, including with tools like web search and file search.

32.) OpenAI Says National Security Depends On Unrestricted Access To AI Training Data | ArsTechnica.com | March 13, 2025

OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use — paving the way for AI companies’ unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.

33.) Sesame Releases Base AI Model Powering Its Viral Virtual Assistant Maya | TechCrunch.com | March 13, 2025

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates “RVQ audio codes” from text and audio inputs, according to Sesame’s description on the AI dev platform Hugging Face.

34.) AI Summaries Are Coming To Microsoft Notepad | TheVerge.com | March 13, 2025

The Snipping Tool is also getting a handy way to draw straight lines.

35.) OpenAI Labels Deepseek State-Controlled, Proposes Bans On Prc-Produced AI Models | TechCrunch.com | March 13, 2025

In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled” and recommends that the U.S. government consider banning models from the outfit and similar People’s Republic of China (PRC)-supported operations.

36.) Anthropic Updates API To Boost Throughput And Reduce Token Usage With Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Anthropic.com | March 13, 2025

We’ve made several updates to the Anthropic API that let developers significantly increase throughput and reduce token usage with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. These include: cache-aware rate limits, simpler prompt caching, and token-efficient tool use.

37.) Google To Launch AI Assistant Pixel Sense This Year | Cnet.com | March 13, 2025

The Pixel Sense assistant would pull in data from apps like Calendar, Docs and Photos to add more context to responses.

38.) Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol: AI’s New Universal Translator For Data | Github.com | March 13, 2025

An MCP server implementation that integrates the Sonar API to provide Claude with unparalleled real-time, web-wide research.

39.) Oracle Introduces AI Agents In Oracle Investigation Hub To Combat Financial Crime | Oracle.com | March 13, 2025

New agentic AI capabilities in Oracle Investigation Hub can reduce manual work to help uncover and thwart financial schemes faster.

40.) Gaming Goodness: Nvidia Reveals Latest Neural Rendering And AI Advancements At GDC 2025 | Blogs.nvidia.com | March 13, 2025

New neural rendering tools, rapid NVIDIA DLSS 4 adoption, ‘Half-Life 2 RTX’ demo and digital human technology enhancements are among NVIDIA’s announcements at the premier conference for game developers.

41.) New Copilot For Gaming Aims To Save You Time, Help You Get Good — Xbox | News.xbox.com | March 13, 2025

On the Official Xbox Podcast, Fatima Kardar introduced Copilot for Gaming, the ultimate gaming sidekick that helps players get to play faster, sharpen skills with expert coaching, and enjoy a more social gaming experience.

42.) CSO Jimmy O. Yang Shares Unorthodox Security Tips At Company All-Hands | X.com | March 13, 2025

Our new Chief Security Officer, Jimmy O. Yang, shared some unconventional security tips at the last company all-hands meeting.

43.) Google’s Notebooklm Gets Major Update: Gemini 2.0 Integration And Enhanced Citation Features | X.com | March 13, 2025

Next batch of
@NotebookLM updates rolling out: Even smarter answers, powered by Gemini 2.0 Thinking. See citations in your notes, not just in the Q&A (top request). Customize the sources used for making your podcasts and notes (top request). Much smoother scrolling for Q&A.

44.) Bolt Launches URL Tool To Convert Figma Designs Into Full-Stack Applications | X.com | March 13, 2025

Introducing Figma to Bolt. Go from Figma to pixel-perfect full stack app — just put bolt.new in front of the URL & start prompting!

45.) Convergence Launches Deepwork, Its Most Advanced AI Agent To Date | X.com | March 13, 2025

Today we’re introducing DeepWork — our most powerful and sophisticated agent yet.

March 12, 2025 📅️

46.) OpenAI Makes An Agent Maker | TheNeuronDaily.com | March 12, 2025

Grant Harvey reports that OpenAI has introduced a platform enabling developers to build AI agents capable of web searching, file management, and computer operations. The release includes tools like the Responses API for enhanced interactions and the Agents SDK for creating specialized AI assistants, aiming to streamline the development of intelligent applications.

47.) How To Watch Nvidia GTC 2025, Including CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote | TechCrunch.com | March 12, 2025

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments, and we’ve made it easy for you to follow along.

48.) Browser Use From Butterfly Effect Gaining Popularity Amid Manus AI Agent Platform Virality | TechCrunch.com | March 12, 2025

Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use.

49.) Meta Criticized For Invoking Bob Dylan Defense In AI Copyright Dispute | ArsTechnica.com | March 12, 2025

Authors think that Meta’s admitted torrenting of a pirated books data set used to train its AI models is evidence enough to win their copyright fight — which previously hinged on a court ruling that AI training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use.

50.) Nous Research Launches API For Hermes 3 And DeepHermes-3 AI Models Challenging OpenAI | VentureBeat.com | March 12, 2025

Nous Research, the New York-based AI collective known for developing what it calls “personalized, unrestricted” language models, has launched a new Inference API that makes its models more accessible to developers and researchers through a programmatic interface.

51.) Snap Launches AI-Powered Video Lenses Using In-House Generative Model | TechCrunch.com | March 12, 2025

Snapchat is introducing its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house-built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app’s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month.

52.) Rivian Joins The Hands-Free Highway Driving Party | TheVerge.com | March 12, 2025

Enhanced Highway Assist will be available on 135,000 miles of highway in the US and Canada.

53.) Google Claims Gemma 3 Achieves 98% Of Deepseek’s Accuracy Using Only One GPU | ZDNet.com | March 12, 2025

Google says it’s found a sweet spot between power and efficiency by employing the ‘distillation’ of neural nets.

54.) China’s Manus AI Partners With Alibaba’s Qwen Team In Expansion Bid | Reuters.com | March 12, 2025

China’s Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba’s Qwen AI models, a move that could bolster the artificial intelligence start-up’s roll-out of what it called the world’s first general AI agent.

55.) Introducing Gemini Robotics, AI Models Designed For Robots To Understand, Act And React To The Physical World | Deepmind.google | March 12, 2025

At Google DeepMind, we’ve been making progress in how our Gemini models solve complex problems through multimodal reasoning across text, images, audio and video. So far however, those abilities have been largely confined to the digital realm. In order for AI to be useful and helpful to people in the physical realm, they have to demonstrate “embodied” reasoning — the humanlike ability to comprehend and react to the world around us — as well as safely take action to get things done.

56.) Mirage Launches AI Platform For Generating Synthetic Video Ads With Virtual Humans | X.com | March 12, 2025

Mirage is LIVE. Generate energetic, high-converting ads with people that don’t exist — complete with animated body language and micro-expressions — using Mirage, the first foundation model built to generate UGC-style content. Get started with a script or an audio file, then specify the look of your spokesperson, their background, outfit, objects, and even emotion. It’s never been easier to iterate and scale ad production with Mirage, now available in Captions Ad Studio.

57.) Moonvalley Launches Marey: First AI Video Model Trained Exclusively On Licensed Data | X.com | March 12, 2025

The first world-class clean AI video model is here. Marey by Moonvalley — built for filmmakers, trained exclusively on licensed data. Brought to you by the leading minds in AI and film. The future starts now. Join the waitlist.

58.) Google Opens Gemini 2.0 Flash Image Generation To All Developers | X.com | March 12, 2025

Native image generation with Gemini 2.0 Flash is now available to all developers via an experimental release in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio! The chat based image editing and creation is so much fun to play with.

59.) Perplexity AI Adds Mcp Support, Enables Real-Time Information For AI Models | X.com | March 12, 2025

The Perplexity API Model Context Protocol (MCP) is now available. We’ve built an MCP server for Sonar, giving AI assistants real-time, web search research capabilities. Powered by Perplexity, Claude can now search the web and deliver real-time and accurate insights on demand.

60.) Niantic’s Next Chapter: Introducing A New Home For Niantic Games And A New Future For Niantic Spatial Inc. | Nianticlabs.com | March 12, 2025

Today we’re announcing changes at Niantic that will set us on a bold new course. Nearly a decade ago, we spun out as a small team from Google with a bold vision: to use technology to overlay the world with rich digital experiences. Our goal: to inspire people to explore their surroundings and foster real-world connections, especially at a time when relationships were becoming increasingly digital.

61.) Google Releases Gemma 3: Open-Weight Llm With Multimodal Support And 128K Token Context | X.com | March 12, 2025

Gemma 3 (our open weight LLM) is here and for the first time available on both Google AI Studio and the Gemini API! It is also: Natively multimodal. Long context (128K tokens). Can run on a single H100.

62.) Freepik Launches Image-To-Video Feature On Google Veo 2 Platform | X.com | March 12, 2025

Oops, we did it again. You’ve been asking, and it’s finally here. Image-to-video on Google Veo 2, first in Freepik AI Suite. Full control, pro results. GO!

March 11, 2025 📅️

63.) Apple’s AI Strat, Explained | TheNeuronDaily.com | March 11, 2025

Grant Harvey discusses Apple’s recent delay of its smart home hub due to Siri’s shortcomings, highlighting the company’s struggles to keep pace in the AI arena. He also notes that analysts have reduced iPhone sales growth forecasts, attributing it to underwhelming AI advancements, while Apple plans a $500 billion investment to bolster its AI capabilities.

64.) AI Voice Generators Are Getting SCARY | Sesame Vs Grok Vs ElevenLabs | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | March 11, 2025

This episode of The Next Wave explores the rapid advancements in AI voice generation, featuring tools like Sesame, Grok, and ElevenLabs. Hosts Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands showcase live demonstrations, discuss real-world applications, and examine the societal implications of hyper-realistic AI voices that are approaching human-like quality.

65.) The AI Scientist’s Paper Passes Peer Review At ICLR Conference | X.com | March 11, 2025

We’re proud to announce that a paper produced by The AI Scientist-v2 passed the peer-review process at a workshop in ICLR, a top AI conference.

66.) Adobe’s New AI Feature Lets You Edit Stock Images On The Fly — No Photoshop Needed | ZDNet.com | March 11, 2025

With Adobe Stock’s new Customize tool, you can say goodbye to endlessly searching for the just right image.

67.) Apple Readies Dramatic Software Overhaul For iPhone, iPad And Mac | Bloomberg.com | March 11, 2025

Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company’s history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone, iPad and Mac for a new generation of users.

68.) Sarah Silverman’s Meta Copyright Lawsuit Advances As Judge Allows Authors’ Dmca Claims | MusicBusinessWorldwide.com | March 11, 2025

A federal judge has allowed a portion of an AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to proceed, rejecting the tech giant’s attempt to have the case dismissed entirely.

69.) Apple Reportedly Developing AIrpods With Built-In Cameras For AI-Powered Features | BusinessToday.in | March 11, 2025

Apple is reimagining the future of personal audio and AirPods with tiny cameras could soon be a reality.

70.) Meta Begins Testing Its First In-House AI Training Chip | Reuters.com | March 11, 2025

Meta tests first AI training chip, part of plan to reduce reliance on suppliers like Nvidia. Chip aims to lower AI infrastructure costs, sources say. Meta plans to use chips for recommendations and generative AI.

71.) New Tools For Building Agents | OpenAI.com | March 11, 2025

We’re evolving our platform to help developers and enterprises build useful and reliable agents.

72.) Breaking The Algorithmic Ceiling In Pre-Training With Inductive Moment Matching | Lumalabs.ai | March 11, 2025

There is a growing sentiment in the AI community that generative pre-training is reaching a limit. However, we argue that these limits are not due to a lack of data itself, but rather a stagnation in algorithmic innovation. The field remains dominated by just two paradigms since around mid-2020: autoregressive models for discrete signals and diffusion models for continuous signals. This stagnation has created a bottleneck that prevents us from fully unlocking the potential of rich multi-modal data, which in turn limits the progress on multimodal intelligence.

73.) OpenAI Develops New AI Model Excelling At Creative Writing, Says Altman | X.com | March 11, 2025

We trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief.

74.) Microsoft Announces Responses API And Computer-Using Agent In Azure AI Foundry | Azure.microsoft.com | March 11, 2025

AI agents are transforming industries by automating workflows, enhancing productivity, and enabling intelligent decision-making. Businesses are leveraging AI agents to process insurance claims, manage IT service desks, optimize supply chain logistics, and even assist healthcare professionals in analyzing medical records. The potential is vast, and we’re excited to introduce two powerful innovations in Azure AI Foundry.

75.) Perplexity Launches Windows Desktop App With Voice Commands And Keyboard Shortcuts | X.com | March 11, 2025

Introducing the Perplexity Windows app. Access voice dictation, keyboard shortcuts, and the latest models with the official Perplexity desktop app for PC.

76.) Reka Open Sources Flash 3: New 21B Parameter AI Model Powers Enterprise Platform Nexus | X.com | March 11, 2025

We are open sourcing Reka Flash 3, our new reasoning model that was trained from scratch. It achieves competitive performance with only 21B parameters. Reka Flash 3 powers Nexus, our new enterprise intelligence platform.

77.) Voice AI Startup Sonic Secures $64M Series A Led By Kleiner Perkins | X.com | March 11, 2025

We’ve raised a $64M Series A led by @kleinerperkins to build the platform for real-time voice AI. We’ll use this funding to expand our team, and to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with Sonic 2.0, available today.

78.) Introducing Agents In Harvey | Harvey.ai | March 11, 2025

Introducing agentic workflows designed to collaborate with professionals to deliver precise, purpose-built work product.

79.) Anthropic CEO: AI Will Write 90% Of Code Within 6 Months, All Code Within A Year | X.com | March 11, 2025

“In the next 3 to 6 months, AI is writing 90% of the code, and in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI.” – Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic

Last Week 📅️

80.) Research: Token Revision Diffusion: Making Language Models Self-Correcting | Arxiv.org | March 10, 2025

While state-of-the-art language models achieve impressive results through next-token prediction, they have inherent limitations such as the inability to revise already generated tokens. This has prompted exploration of alternative approaches such as discrete diffusion. However, masked diffusion, which has emerged as a popular choice due to its simplicity and effectiveness, reintroduces this inability to revise words. To overcome this, we generalize masked diffusion and derive the theoretical backbone of a family of general interpolating discrete diffusion (GIDD) processes offering greater flexibility in the design of the noising processes. Leveraging a novel diffusion ELBO, we achieve compute-matched state-of-the-art performance in diffusion language modeling. Exploiting GIDD’s flexibility, we explore a hybrid approach combining masking and uniform noise, leading to improved sample quality and unlocking the ability for the model to correct its own mistakes, an area where autoregressive models notoriously have struggled.

81.) OpenAI To Pay Coreweave $11.9 Billion Over Five Years For AI Data Centers, Services | CNBC.com | March 10, 2025

CoreWeave, the provider of data centers for artificial intelligence, has signed a five-year deal with OpenAI worth almost $12 billion, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. The agreement comes just ahead of CoreWeave’s expected initial public offering.
As part of the deal, OpenAI is getting a stake in CoreWeave worth about $350 million.

82.) ElevenLabs Cuts Speech-To-Text Pricing By 45%, Offers Free Trial Of Scribe Model | X.com | March 10, 2025

The world’s most accurate Speech to Text is now 45% cheaper at scale and free via the UI until April 9th. Scribe, our industry-leading Speech to Text model, delivers unmatched accuracy across 99 languages.

83.) Hunyuan Launches Turbos: New Hybrid AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 At Lower Cost | X.com | March 10, 2025

Introducing Hunyuan-TurboS — the first ultra-large Hybrid-Transformer-Mamba MoE model! Traditional pure Transformer models struggle with long-text training and inference due to O(N²) complexity and KV-Cache issues.

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