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17th July - AI News Daily - From Code to Creation: How Reflection AI, Runway, and Polycomputing Are Changing the Game
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Key Industry Moves: OpenAI established an Agent Security team focusing on AI safety. Anthropic recovered key product managers who had briefly moved to competitors. The EU introduced a General-Purpose AI Code of Practice for AI Act compliance. FineWeb, the world's largest AI training dataset, expanded to 18.5 trillion tokens with 2025 data. Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's company launched its first product. A global taskforce is working on AI support for low-resource languages.
Innovative Tools: Reflection AI's Asimov decodes complex code. Polycomputing AI enables in-chat finance dashboard creation. A new open-source deep research agent automates high-quality reporting. LTXV delivers 60-second AI video creation on consumer GPUs. Runway's Act-Two replicates actor performances in AI videos. Perplexity's Comet browser streamlines travel planning with workflow context features. MiniMax's Max handles complex multi-step tasks.
LLM Advancements: Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4.1 on SWE-bench and rivals Claude Sonnet cost-effectively. Comparisons between Kimi K2 and Grok 4 show varied strengths. Stanford's KernelBench tests LLMs' GPU code generation abilities.
Feature Upgrades: Microsoft Copilot Vision offers comprehensive screen scanning. NVIDIA's Audio Flamingo 3 sets new standards for audio-language models. Voice-controlled real-time browser automation enables hands-free navigation.
Education & Resources: Together AI and DeepLearning.AI launched a RAG course on Coursera. Hot Evals Summer teaches AI evaluation techniques. Scratch to Scale provides AI training resources. A guide for LeRobot SO-ARM101 with NVIDIA Jetson is available.
Impressive Demos: Voice-controlled browser demos showcase AI inference. Polycomputing AI automates financial reporting. Dr.Copilot has been deployed in Romanian hospitals.
Industry Discourse: Experts debate RAG's continued relevance. AI is reshaping workplaces through automation. Jensen Huang and Fei-Fei Li receive recognition for their contributions. New tools verify data usage in training. Mixture of Recursions offers efficient alternatives to large models.
Major Market Developments: Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search. AWS introduced AgentCore and Kiro. OpenAI expanded into enterprise productivity tools. Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion. Meta poached key OpenAI researchers. Various security concerns and regulatory responses are emerging globally.
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