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17th October - AI News Daily - Google and vLLM Deliver 5x Speed-Up for Open AI Models
17 Oct 2025
Send us a text🌍 INAI • The Open AI HubThe Intelligence Atlas → the world’s most comprehensive, open hub of AI knowledge. 2 Million+ tools, models, agents, tutorials & daily news—free for all, updated every day.https://github.com/inai-sandy/inAI-wikiTop Highlights: Google and vLLM launch unified TPU backend with 5x speed-ups for open models. Google Veo 3.1 debuts across Gemini/Vertex with enhanced video realism, audio, and editing. OpenAI expands enterprise presence: Walmart adds conversational shopping, Thermo Fisher accelerates drug discovery, Salesforce integrates Gemini. Major infrastructure expansion: Stargate, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank open five U.S. data centers; TSMC nears 2nm production. OpenAI relaxes content policies and creates Well-Being Council amid legal challenges and mid-2025 loss reports.New Tools: Nanonets-OCR2 and PaddleOCR-VL offer multilingual document parsing. Cognition SWE-grep and Cline CLI enable fast agentic code search and terminal-based multi-agent coding. LangSmith Studio debuts as IDE for debugging agentic apps. IBM AI Steerability 360 provides fine-grained LLM controls. CoreWeave OpenPipe launches serverless RL at scale. Microsoft ExCyTIn-Bench introduces cybersecurity benchmark.LLM Updates: Claude Haiku 4.5 shows strong results with ecosystem support. MixedBread tiny embeddings (17M-32M) rival larger models. Meta MobileLLM-Pro (1B) targets on-device inference. Alibaba Qwen3-VL-Flash emphasizes speed and vision-language reasoning. Google Gemini 3.0 Pro gains attention for detailed outputs with LangChain support. Google C2S-Scale 27B translates single-cell biology to natural language.Research: Google DeepSomatic outperforms tools on tumor variant calling. DeepMind + CFS advance fusion control via RL. OpenAI hires physicist Alex Lupșasca for Physics Initiative. Meta ScaleRL provides RL scaling recipes. Dr.LLM proposes dynamic layer routing. USC Viterbi unveils blood-based cancer detection tool.Industry: Walmart + OpenAI launch conversational shopping with $1B employee upskilling. Thermo Fisher + OpenAI partner on drug discovery. Infrastructure: five new data centers, Google+vLLM TPU speed-ups, NVIDIA DGX Spark, TSMC 2nm progress. UK MHRA pilots AI tools for NHS. Spotify + labels launch responsible AI music tools.Learning: Hugging Face publishes robot learning guide; LeRobot adds multi-GPU training. DeepLearning.AI releases real-time agents course. Anthropic shares Claude Skills best practices.Demos: RTFM shows 3D-consistent video on single H100. Riverflow 1 tops image-editing leaderboard. Veo 3.1 live across platforms.Discussions: Debates on small-model post-training methods, AGI timelines, task-specific vs. general models, and local LLM performance.Support the show🌍 INAI • The Open AI Hub The Intelligence Atlas → the world’s most comprehensive, open hub of AI knowledge. 2 Million+ tools, models, agents, tutorials & daily news—free for all, updated every day. https://github.com/inai-sandy/inAI-wiki
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