On this day: Aug 7

Although it is an image model launched after regulatory pressure over NCII, the announcement makes no mention of watermarking or moderation

Breaks the assumption that N and D are independent, reducing prediction error by 1.5 to 3 times and extrapolating with about 10 times less compute

The disillusionment phase of AGI expectations; Altman himself acknowledged that, by the definition of AGI, something important is still missing

The first open release of an in-house LLM by a major Korean company. But its research-only license also revealed the conservatism of the Korean approach to openness

A sign that small open-weight models were starting to overtake commercial APIs