Meta just dropped Llama 3.3 — a 70B open model that offers similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B, but significantly faster and cheaper. It’s also ~25x cheaper than GPT-4o. Text only for now, and available to download at llama .com/llama-downloads.

Google launched a new model, gemini-exp-1206 on Gemini’s 1 year birthday (today!) It tops the Chatbot Arena rankings in ALL domains. It also looks like it’s available for everyone in AI Studio for free!

OpenAI announced reinforcement finetuning on day 2 of its 12-day ‘Shipmas’ spree It “makes it really easy to create expert models in specific domains with very little training data.” You need to apply to a limited alpha program to start, with a public rollout in Q1 of 2025.

xAI’s Grok is now available to free users on X! Even if you don’t have a blue checkmark, you can send up to 10 messages to Grok every 2 hours. Next up, standalone app.

https://twitter.com/nima_owji/status/1864998582778057057

A new SEC filing also revealed that xAI raised another $6 Billion. This will help the reported massive expansion of its Colossus supercomputer to over 1M GPUs xAI is a serious competitor to OpenAI, Google, and other top labs.

Microsoft AI launched Copilot Vision in Edge — an AI that can see the browser and navigate it alongside you in real time with voice. This is one of the craziest products I’ve tried. Highly recommend checking Edge and seeing if you got early access.

ElevenLabs announced ‘GenFM’ which seems to be the AI Voice startup’s version of NotebookLM. It allows anyone to generate a full podcast from a URL or file It also allows you to edit podcasts on the web, and listen to podcasts on ElevenReader.

Clone Robotics introduced Clone Alpha, an (extremely) humanoid robot featuring synthetic organs and water-powered artificial muscles 279 will officially be available for preorder in 2025. This humanoid looks insane compared to others on the market.

Author: @rowancheung

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