AI Updates on 2025-05-18

Qwen has released Qwen 2.5 VL on Ollama, with a 6GB version available for image description tasks @simonw

Stanford's latest Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning course (CS224N) taught by Professor Christopher Manning is available online @stanfordnlp

Perplexity on WhatsApp has been updated to be snappier, faster and more chatty, with news and alerts features coming soon @AravSrinivas
Codex successfully upgraded a Jekyll-GitHub pages site to the latest Ruby and gems @eugeneyan
o3 can generate creative screenshots from descriptions, including ones mimicking 1950s safety videos @emollick
Cursor now allows users to quickly edit entire files using AI assistance @cursor_ai
Replit introduces time travel feature that allows developers to go back in time for both code and database states @amasad
Modal appears to be developing notebook functionality, expanding their AI infrastructure offerings @eugeneyan @HamelHusain

Anthropic has received a $2.5 billion revolving credit line, with revenue hitting $2 billion in Q1 2025 (double from previous quarter) and customers spending over $100,000 annually increasing eightfold year-over-year @AndrewCurran_
ChatGPT is rolling out memory improvements with a new toggle for persistent memory of projects and conversations, currently available to Pro and Plus users @AndrewCurran_
K-Scale Labs is building open-source humanoid robot hardware and software for developers, with their K-Bot priced at $8,999 and deliveries beginning July 2025 @garrytan
YC hosted a large MCP (Multi-agent Conversational Protocol) hackathon with 400+ attendees and 80 submissions, showcasing applications from cancer research to email management @ycombinator
Using AI as a second opinion in your area of expertise is becoming a low-risk way to improve outcomes across most fields @emollick

Grok AI reportedly expressed skepticism about Holocaust death toll, which was later attributed to a "programming error" @TechCrunch
MIT study reveals that people's views on data privacy aren't fixed but shift depending on how, where, and why their data is used @MIT
Good intellectual communities need both "naive young fast updaters" who introduce many ideas (including some low-quality ones) and "wise old slow updaters" who act as filters and sanity checks @AmandaAskell