May 14 – Today’s Highlights (May 14) ByteDance applies GRPO to vision generation for the first time. The new DanceGRPO method enables faster convergence and higher visual fidelity. The code will be released. https://
arxiv.org/abs/2505.07818 Qwen3’s full tech report is out.
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ByteDance DanceGRPO advances vision generation; Qwen3 tech report released
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LLMs for Complex Game Projects: Tractability and Resource Constraints
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(I briefly considered “Beat Factorio with LLMs” as a project during my sabbatical but it looks very far from being tractable without a team and funding, which defeats the purpose of a sabbatical project.)
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Embeddings Are Underrated: Technical Deep Dive
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# Embeddings are underrated (2024) just a really excellent piece of technical writing.
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MLE-Dojo Benchmark Evaluates Frontier LLMs on ML Engineering
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MLE-Dojo: A new benchmark to evaluate LLM agents on real Machine Learning Engineering tasks. Its key innovation? An interactive environment that allows agents to experiment, debug, and refine solutions via structured feedback loops. Here’s how 8 frontier LLMs perform
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Long-Term Memory for Improving Email Assistant Agent Interactions
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Long-term memory is a vital part of building great agent interactions. Here's David Xu showing how to use it to make an email assistant improve over time! This ties in beautifully with the prior human in the loop steps, as the agent uses the human's edits and rejections to
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Perplexity introduces Projects for AI-powered app generation
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BREAKING 🚨: Users will be able to build shareable apps via Perplexity Projects.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 13 mai 2025
Looks like it will be similar to Deep Research, where Perplexity will use web search and write code in order to complete the task.
h/t @vishyfishy2 https://t.co/gWh83L8MI3 pic.twitter.com/MNNQPfUvIuBREAKING : Users will be able to build shareable apps via Perplexity Projects. Looks like it will be similar to Deep Research, where Perplexity will use web search and write code in order to complete the task. h/t @vishyfishy2
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OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol for ChatGPT connectors
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OpenAI is finally tapping into MCPs As ChatGPT will be getting a custom connector option, which is likely similar to the recently added Remote MCP feature on Claude.
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Perplexity introduces new Projects feature for AI-driven workflows
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Perplexity is working on Projects! “Create plans, docs, apps and more”
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LLM domain training should produce manuals not weight updates
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yes exactly, "training" an LLM on a target domain should output a manual not a weight diff.
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OpenAI developing ChatGPT desktop feature for recording and transcribing meetings
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OpenAI is working on a possibility for ChatGPT to Record, Transcribe and Summarise meetings. Sounds like it will be a desktop feature