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01 Sep 2025
Send us a text**Open Science & Competition:** NVIDIA released Nemotron-CC-v2 pretraining dataset, boosting transparent model development. China's AI ecosystem surges with Meituan pretraining massive MoE models and a new detailed open-weights Chinese model. xAI standardized serving on SGLang.**Recognition & Talent:** Yejin Choi named to TIME's 100 Most Influential in AI, LangChainAI joined 2025 IA40 list, and a senior figure left Meta for a superintelligence effort elsewhere.**Image Generation:** Hot competition between Midjourney v7, Stable Diffusion 3.5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-Image-1, and PixArt-Σ.**Developer Tools:** LangChain's AI Rails App Builder generates Rails apps from natural language, Clarifai's Local Runners enable model deployment flexibility, and Parallelism Mesh Zoo provides resources on parallel model structures.**LLM Advances:** Meituan's LongCat-Flash/Chat (560B-parameter MoE) rivals Meta's best. StableMoE showed frozen routers can outperform standard routing. Mixture-of-Recursions enables token-specific "thinking depth." Chain-of-Layers enables task-specific compute. Berkeley's XQuant cuts memory by 12x. Open-source vision-language models (InternVL3.5, MiniCPM-V 4.5) closing gap with closed systems.**Platform Updates:** Google's Gemini added free Pro access and "Deep Think" reasoning. Perplexity integrated with Comet browser for faster AI search. Draw Things added Qwen-Image-Edit for photo editing.**Learning Resources:** Stanford's NLP course by Chris Manning now freely available. "Making Friends with ML" offers 6.5-hour ML introduction. New survey on LLM reasoning architectures released.**Agentic Systems:** LangGraph-based agents demonstrated reliable operation. Uber detailed its Genie agent stack combining LangGraph, Qdrant, and Gemini.**Industry Moves:** Microsoft released MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview. OpenAI released open-weight models (gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b) and reported 700M weekly ChatGPT users. Meta exploring integration with Google's Gemini while advancing Llama.**Consumer AI:** Google pushing "ambient AI" across devices. Samsung expanded AI-driven Collections app globally. Apple piloting Asa retail training chatbot. QuickBooks launched AI bookkeeping agents. Workday acquired Flowise. AWS launched AI agent marketplace.**Safety & Legal Concerns:** RAND study found inconsistent AI responses to suicide queries. Organizations reporting sophisticated AI-powered attacks. Legal challenges from Scarlett Johansson (Lisa AI), Disney/Universal (MidJourney), and against [Otter.ai](http://Otter.ai) highlight deepfake and consent issues.**Implementation Challenges:** 95% of firms report no measurable ROI from AI projects, pushing toward narrower deployments with human oversight.**Research Applications:** University of Rochester developed voice-based Parkinson's screening tool with 85% accuracy. India's AgriCure web tool helps farmers identify crop diseases from photos.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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