Tencent announced Hunyuan-Large-Vision, a multimodal understanding model It excels in complex tasks like visual reasoning, video understanding, and 3D spatial comprehension Also scored 1256 on the LMArena Vision leaderboard, on par with frontier models
BIG TECH
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Anthropic Expands Claude Access to US Government, Increases Context Window
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Anthropic shared two key updates: —Claude assistant to be offered to “all three branches” of the U.S. govt for just $1 (much like OpenAI)
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GitHub Expands AI Model Access to Developers
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I shouldn't think so, GitHub are very keen to have more people use GitHub Models
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OpenAI Open-Sources Models for First Time
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🔟OpenAI drops gpt-oss models
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 13 août 2025
OpenAI finally open-sources its own models for the first time. pic.twitter.com/yKd7xPRZ5mOpenAI drops gpt-oss models OpenAI finally open-sources its own models for the first time.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.1 Strongest Coding Model
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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 Their strongest coding model to date.
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DeepMind Genie 3 generates interactive worlds from text images
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6️⃣ DeepMind launches Genie 3
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 13 août 2025
Generate interactive worlds in real-time from text, images, or videos; edging closer to a real-life Holodeck. pic.twitter.com/1UeCVHrHkcDeepMind launches Genie 3 Generate interactive worlds in real-time from text, images, or videos; edging closer to a real-life Holodeck.
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Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image Text-to-Image Model
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Qwen drops Qwen-Image A new text-to-image model from Alibaba’s AI powerhouse.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5 Next Generation ChatGPT Model
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2️⃣ OpenAI launches GPT-5
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 13 août 2025
Next-gen ChatGPT arrives, sparking mixed reactions. pic.twitter.com/F7TOASleaLOpenAI launches GPT-5 Next-gen ChatGPT arrives, sparking mixed reactions.
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GPT-5 Model Gains Recognition Despite Controversy
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GPT-5 is an amazing model. I can’t believe that’s controversial.
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Secret Weapon Strategy in AI Race Competition
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I wouldn’t enter the AI race without a secret weapon. Luckily I have one.
