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OpenAI announces o3, achieves 87.5% on ARC-AGI, outperforms prior?models
On the final day of its ’12 Days of Christmas’, OpenAI releases o3, the latest model in its reasoning series, built to solve complex, unseen problems. It moves beyond pattern-matching by generating solutions on the fly using a hybrid neural-symbolic framework.
Use Ollama with any GGUF Model on Hugging Face?Hub
Ollama is an application based on llama.cpp to interact with LLMs directly through your computer. You can use any GGUF quants created by the community on Hugging Face directly with Ollama, without creating a new Modelfile
GitHub Copilot Now Free in VS?Code
GitHub has announced that Copilot is now free for all users in Visual Studio Code. By signing in with a personal GitHub account, developers can access 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month. This free tier offers a choice between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4o models.
1–800-CHATGPT
OpenAI has made voice and text communication possible with ChatGPT. In the US, you can call 1–800-CHATGPT for 15 free minutes a month or send a WhatsApp message from anywhere in the world.
Google launches Veo 2, 4K video model, and enhanced image model globally.
Google launches three new tools: Veo 2 for video generation, Imagen 3 for image creation, and Whisk for remixing visuals. These tools provide high-resolution video, accurate image generation, and creative control over visuals.
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Model: DALL-E
Prompt: “A cozy Christmas-themed indoor scene featuring a cheerful young woman sitting at a wooden table. She has shoulder-length dark hair, big expressive eyes, and a warm smile. She is wearing a bright red hoodie and a festive Santa hat with a white pom-pom. In front of her is an open laptop glowing softly, displaying the text ‘See you in 2025’ in a decorative font with snowflake accents. The background includes a large window showing a clear winter night sky with a full moon and snow-covered trees. Inside, there are Christmas decorations, including a lit Christmas tree adorned with ornaments, strings of fairy lights, and warm, ambient lighting creating a magical holiday atmosphere. Books and small holiday items are on the table, enhancing the cozy and festive vibe.”
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Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
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