Top stories in tech today: – Apple shopping from Anthropic and OpenAI
– Google signs landmark fusion power deal
– DOJ cracks down on North Korean tech scam
– Netflix to stream NASA’s space missions – Quick hits on other major tech news Read more: https://
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Apple recruits AI brain for Siri amid tech innovation surge
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Pass@2 Scores Gap Below Pass@250 Levels Explained
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The pass@2 scores are actually reported in the blog post, but as mentioned in the parent tweet, the gap is ~ 10-15% below pass@250 levels. What I meant in my previous tweet is to narrow this gap in the future.
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Meta’s Llama Strategy: Reshaping AI Frontier Impact
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In my opinion, Meta has been the most impactful big tech company in AI thanks to the open release of Llama that changed the field and helped them catch up to the frontier in record times! I suspect they’ll be able to 100x their impact thanks to the addition of @alexandr_wang
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Scaling LLM Inference Compute: Adaptive Branching Tree Search
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Our paper: “Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search”
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AB-MCTS Search Capability Evaluation with High Pass@k Metrics
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Thanks @fchollet
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Multi-LLM AB-MCTS Combination Outperforms on ARC-AGI-2 Benchmark
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The Multi-LLM AB-MCTS combination of o4-mini + Gemini-2.5-Pro + DeepSeek-R1-0528, current frontier AI models, achieves strong performance on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, outperforming individual models by a large margin. Implementation of AB-MCTS on GitHub: https://
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Baidu Open-Sources 10 ERNIE 4.5 Model Versions, 424B Beats DeepSeek V3
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Baidu open-sourced 10 versions of its ERNIE 4.5 model family. Key highlights: —Models from 300M to 424B params
—424B version beats DeepSeek V3 on 22/28 benchmarks
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AI Training Now Legally Classified Under Copyright Law
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Well, the overwhelming consensus is now that the activities around AI training fall under Copyright law. The "non-expressive use" folks always had a fringe opinion, but have lost. Not just caselaw but regulations codify it. There may be exceptions to the rule, but not important.
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Multiple LLMs Solve Previously Unsolvable ARC-AGI-2 Examples Together
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Many ARC-AGI-2 examples that were unsolvable by any single LLM were solved by combining multiple LLMs. In some cases, an initially incorrect attempt by o4-mini is used by R1-0528 and Gemini-2.5-Pro as a hint to get to the correct solution. ARC-AGI-2 code: https://
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Technical clarification on Claude Code CLI operation
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Ensuite Claude code c’est un pas un server auquel tu peux te connecter c’est un cli qui run dans le terminal