AI Updates on 2025-05-12

Meta releases Dynamic Byte Latent Transformer, an 8B-parameter model with alternative tokenization methods for improved language model efficiency and reliability @AIatMeta
PrimeIntellect open-sources INTELLECT-2, a 32B parameter model trained via globally distributed reinforcement learning, beating QwQ-32B on math and code @huggingface
BAAI releases RoboBrain, a 32B open embodied AI model enabling multi-robot collaboration with task decomposition, operable region detection, and motion trajectory prediction @huggingface
Alibaba releases quantized versions of Qwen3 in multiple formats (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ) for easy local deployment via Ollama, LM Studio, SGLang, and vLLM @Qwen

Meta introduces Collaborative Reasoner, a framework to improve collaborative reasoning in language models, paving the way for social agents that can partner with humans and other agents @AIatMeta
OpenAI releases HealthBench, a new evaluation benchmark for AI systems in healthcare settings, developed with input from over 250 physicians from around the world @OpenAI @gdb
Microsoft Research introduces ADeLe, a new evaluation method that explains what AI systems excel at and where they're likely to fail by breaking tasks into ability-based requirements @MSFTResearch

Gemini 2.5 Pro enhances video understanding capabilities, processing up to 6 hours of video in a single request with audio-visual understanding, code integration, and temporal reasoning @HamelHusain
ChatGPT adds PDF export functionality for research reports, complete with tables, images, linked citations, and sources @OpenAI @aidan_mclau
Real-time webcam demo combining SmolVLM and llama.cpp server running locally on a Macbook M3 @huggingface
Google using latest generative AI models (including Veo) to transform 2D product images into immersive 3D visualizations for Google Shopping @GoogleAI

Google launches AI Futures Fund, a new program offering startups early access to Google DeepMind models, Cloud credits, and resources to build AI technology @GoogleDeepMind @JeffDean @demishassabis
Y Combinator and partners announce AI Startup School in San Francisco featuring speakers including Sam Altman, François Chollet, Chelsea Finn, Andrej Karpathy, Fei-Fei Li, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Andrew Ng, and Aravind Srinivas @fchollet @garrytan
According to Stanford's AI Index 2025, the frontier of AI development is increasingly competitive with only 0.7% separating the top-performing model from the 10th-ranked model @StanfordHAI
Google's Gemma AI models surpass 150 million downloads @TechCrunch

Mustafa Suleyman argues that larger LLMs are actually easier to control, stating "Scale doesn't hurt control - it helps" @mustafasuleyman
Danish research shows AI adoption and impact depends on organizational encouragement, with no overall impact on wages or employment as of 2024 @emollick
Alex Graveley suggests ChatGPT's push towards AI-assisted self-therapy and empathetic personalization could be "the greatest technological breakthrough" of his lifetime @alexgraveley
Emollick warns against trusting reasoning chains to show what AI is thinking, noting they're designed to be useful in solving problems but aren't necessarily truthful @emollick