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Hey Folks, we are finally due for a "relaxing" week in AI, no more HUGE company announcements (if you don't consider Meta Movie Gen huge), no conferences or dev days, and some time for Open Source projects to shine. (while we all wait for Opus 3.5 to shake things up)

This week was very multimodal on the show, we covered 2 new video models, one that's tiny and is open source, and one massive from Meta that is aiming for SORA's crown, and 2 new VLMs, one from our friends at REKA that understands videos and audio, while the other from Rhymes is apache 2 licensed and we had a chat with Kwindla Kramer about OpenAI RealTime API and it's shortcomings and voice AI's in general.

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All right, let's TL;DR and show notes, and we'll start with the 2 Nobel prizes in AI 👇

* 2 AI nobel prizes

* John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have been awarded a Physics Nobel prize

* Demis Hassabis, John Jumper & David Baker, have been awarded this year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry.

* Open Source LLMs & VLMs

* TxT360: a globally deduplicated dataset for LLM pre-training ( Blog, Dataset)

* Rhymes Aria - 25.3B multimodal MoE model that can take image/video inputs Apache 2 (Blog, HF, Try It)

* Maitrix and LLM360 launch a new decentralized arena (Leaderboard, Blog)

* New Gradio 5 with server side rendering (X)

* LLamaFile now comes with a chat interface and syntax highlighting (X)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* OpenAI releases MLEBench - new kaggle focused benchmarks for AI Agents (Paper, Github)

* Inflection is still alive - going for enterprise lol (Blog)

* new Reka Flash 21B - (X, Blog, Try It)

* This weeks Buzz

* We chatted about Cursor, it went viral, there are many tips

* WandB releases HEMM - benchmarks of text-to-image generation models (X, Github, Leaderboard)

* Vision & Video

* Meta presents Movie Gen 30B - img and text to video models (blog,

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