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Hey everyone, Alex here 👋

I was hoping for a quiet holiday week, but whoa, while the last newsletter was only a week ago, what a looong week it has been, just Friday after the last newsletter, it felt like OpenAI has changed the world of AI once again with o3 and left everyone asking "was this AGI?" over the X-mas break (Hope Santa brought you some great gifts!) and then not to be outdone, DeepSeek open sourced basically a Claude 2.5 level behemoth DeepSeek v3 just this morning!

Since the breaking news from DeepSeek took us by surprise, the show went a bit longer (3 hours today!) than expected, so as a Bonus, I'm going to release a separate episode with a yearly recap + our predictions from last year and for next year in a few days (soon in your inbox!)

TL;DR

* Open Source LLMs

* CogAgent-9B (Project, Github)

* Qwen QvQ 72B - open weights visual reasoning (X, HF, Demo, Project)

* GoodFire Ember - MechInterp API - GoldenGate LLama 70B

* 🔥 DeepSeek v3 658B MoE - Open Source Claude level model at $6M (X, Paper, HF, Chat)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* 🔥 OpenAI reveals o3 and o3 mini (Blog, X)

* X.ai raises ANOTHER 6B dollars - on their way to 200K H200s (X)

* This weeks Buzz

* Two W&B workshops upcoming in January

* SF - January 11

* Seattle - January 13 (workshop by yours truly!)

* New Evals course with Paige Bailey and Graham Neubig - pre-sign up for free

* Vision & Video

* Kling 1.6 update (Tweet)

* Voice & Audio

* Hume OCTAVE - 3B speech-language model (X, Blog)

* Tools

* OpenRouter added Web Search Grounding to 300+ models (X)

Open Source LLMs

DeepSeek v3 658B - frontier level open weights model for ~$6M (X, Paper, HF,

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