TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google just released a new Gemini model with "thinking budget." Plus, more news from OpenAI, Alibaba, biotech company Profluent, and DeepMind. Here's everything you need to know:
GENERATIVE AI
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Antidistillation Sampling Protects Models Against Knowledge Theft
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Antidistillation Sampling — a novel method to curb the effectiveness of distillation without sacrificing model performance.
A technique big AI labs might be very interested in.
Paper: https://
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13146
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API Returns Thought Token Count Instead of Thinking Process
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The API doesn’t return thoughts, but it does tell you how much thinking it did (thought tokens).
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ChatGPT Helps Resolve Chronic Health Issues for Users
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I'm hearing more and more stories of ChatGPT helping people fix longstanding health issues. We still have a long way to go, but shows how AI is already improving people's lives in meaningful ways.
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AI-Powered Weather App with Geolocation Built in 2 Minutes
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En 2 minutes, j’ai créé une appli météo avec géolocalisation grâce à l’IA ! 🌦️📍 pic.twitter.com/9jOroGkfRC
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 20 avril 2025En 2 minutes, j’ai créé une appli météo avec géolocalisation grâce à l’IA !
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Building AI Applications with Deno and LangChain
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Deno Meets LangChain A guide to building AI applications using Deno, LangChain.js, and local LLMs. Learn how to create structured workflows with TypeScript, featuring Jupyter integration and Ollama for local model hosting. Dive into AI development with JavaScript!
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ChatGPT o3 and Gemini Deep Search surpass Perplexity
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ChatGPT o3 / Gemini Deep Search > Perplexity
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Selecting AI models for different tasks: speed, research, writing, images and summaries
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> 4o when I got no time, I need something solved fast
> o3 when I solve business challenges, when I need research and brain power
> Claude 3.7 when I need really good writing
> 4o when I need good images
> Gemini 2.5 Pro when I need summaries of big PDFs / long videos -
o3 leads in intelligence, 4o for cost and speed
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o3 definitely is the smartest kid on the block right now! 4o is still good for cost efficient things (when you use API if you're a developer) and faster things like if you need really a small task solved fast. But o3 intelligence is higher.