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https://s.server489.com/AI-2025-08-13

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https://s.server489.com/XAI-2025-08-13

Open-Source & Industry Releases: DSPy 3.0 shipped with community upgrades while Modular released Platform 25.5 for better AI performance. NVIDIA published a 3M-sample vision-language dataset and researchers introduced a 30M multilingual VQA dataset. Meta AI unveiled a model predicting brain responses to video without scans. AMD's MI300 GPUs offer 192GB VRAM per card. Universities are launching AI engineering programs with a free course reader.

New Tools: Elysia offers open-source agentic RAG in two commands. ByteDance launched Seedance Pro for unlimited AI video generation. Google's Magenta RealTime enables musician-AI jamming. Open interactive world models advanced quickly, with Matrix-Game 2.0 running at 25 FPS. New accessibility tools include real-time transcription and on-device speech via MLX.

LLM Progress: Claude Sonnet 4 joined the million-token context club. Qwen 3 Coder leads SWE-bench Bash-Only, with open models close behind. Mistral released Medium 3.1 with web search, while GLM-4.5V arrived fully open-source. Evaluation tools include LiveMCPBench for agent testing and Databricks' PGRM for uncertainty-aware judging.

Product Updates: Google Search added Preferred Sources. LlamaCloud with AstroDB creates reasoning agents from documents. Claude Code added planning mode. Gemini's Storybook launched in 45+ languages. Hugging Face Datasets now outpaces S3, and Apple's MLX showed gains versus llama.cpp.

Learning Resources: A "Build an LLM from scratch" repo launched alongside an AI agents PDF covering 12 projects. Demos show rapid app building with advanced models, and a guide details custom Gradio component creation.

Demos & Enterprise: An AI hedge fund simulation uses agent "pods." Kaggle's Game Arena tests generalist models. Hailuo 2 Pro leads in image-to-video. MolmoAct enables steerable molecule trajectories. RBC, LG CNS, and Dell report productivity gains from AI agents.

Research & Discussion: SWE-Bench warned of benchmark saturation. EleutherAI explored safer LLM pretraining. SIGGRAPH highlighted 3D generation challenges. GPT-5 discussions frame it as a reasoning step-change.

Industry News: OpenAI faced GPT-5 backlash, prompting apologies and restored access. Elon Musk plans to sue Apple over App Store rankings. Anthropic will offer Claude to the U.S. government for $1/agency. Apple is testing next-gen Siri with multi-app capabilities. Roblox open-sourced Sentinel moderation. NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron and Cosmos models. In healthcare, Doximity acquired Pathway Medical for $63M.

Research & Regional: University of Zurich introduced Pythia for precise CRISPR edits. An LSE study found gender bias in Gemma's care summaries. The UAE launched an Arabic language modernization initiative. MongoDB integrated Voyage AI and introduced natural language database management.

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