Archive - Towards AI Newsletter

TAI #143: New Scaling Laws Incoming? Ilya's SSI Raises at $30bn, Manus Takes AI Agents Mainstream

Also, Alibaba QwQ-32B, Mistral OCR, and Microsoft's in-house LLM efforts

13 hrs ago •

TAI #142: GPT-4.5 Released - But Can It Stack Up Against Reasoning Models?

Also, Deepseek's open source week, Anthropic $3.5bn raise, and of course, our own new "AI native" Python course for coding novices.

Mar 4 •

Introducing Our Python Primer for Generative AI

The First Python Course Designed for AI Development — from scratch!

Mar 3 •

February 2025

TAI #141: Claude 3.7 Sonnet; Software Dev Focus in Anthropic's First Thinking Model

Also, QwQ-Max-Preview, Prime Intellect's SYNTHETIC-1 dataset, Arc Institute's Evo 2 DNA model, and ChatGPT crosses 400M weekly users.

Feb 25 •

TAI #140: xAI’s Grok-3 steps up the AI Arms Race

Also, OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and 5 Roadmap and Anthropic’s upcoming Hybrid Reasoning Model

Feb 18 •

TAI 139: LLM Adoption; Anthropic Measures Use Cases. OpenAI API Traffic up 7x in 2024

Also, Gemini 2.0, Elon's $97bn offer for OpenAI, Mistral Assistant & more!

Feb 11 •

TAI #138: OpenAI's o3-Mini and Deep Research: A New Era of Reasoning Powered Agents?

Also: new Qwen2.5 models, Mistral 24B, AI2's Tülu 3 405B, and OpenAI's $40bn raise!

Feb 4 •

January 2025

TAI #137: DeepSeek r1 Ignites Debate: Efficiency vs. Scale and China vs. US in the AI Race

Also, Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash-Thinking and OpenAI's Stargate Project

Jan 28 •

TAI #136: DeepSeek-R1 Challenges OpenAI-o1 With ~30x Cheaper Open-Source Reasoning Model

Also, R1 Distilled into small LLMs, Minimax-01, Kimi k1.5!

Jan 21 •

TAI 135: Introducing the 8-Hour Generative AI Primer

Are your apps really AI-powered, or just AI-assisted?

Jan 20 •

TAI 134: The US Reveals Its New Regulations for the Diffusion of Advanced AI

Also, Phi-4 model weights, Mistal Codestral 25.01, Cohere North, rStar-Math, and more!

Jan 14 •

TAI #133: Microsoft's $80Bn Bet on AI Compute for 2025; Will Synthetic Data Cause GPU Bottlenecks in 2025?

Also, METAGENE-1's Pathogen Transformer, NVIDIA CES 2025, Memory Layers at Scale, and More!

Jan 7 •

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