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Today:

• Windsurf Launches SWE-1 AI Models

• Meta Delays Llama 4 Behemoth

• U.S., UAE Launch AI Data Partnership

• Meta Releases OMol25 Chemistry Dataset

• AMD Announces $6B Stock Buyback

Windsurf Launches SWE-1 AI Models

Windsurf launched SWE-1, a new family of AI models built to help with every step of software engineering—not just coding. SWE-1 works with users on unfinished tasks, tests code, and understands feedback across tools like editors, terminals, and browsers. It includes three versions: full, lite, and mini. Backed by real user data and “flow awareness,” SWE-1 models are designed to think like engineers and improve with use, setting a new bar for productivity.

Why This Matters

1. SWE-1 goes beyond autocomplete—modeling long, messy, real-world software work, not just code output.
   

2. Its “flow awareness” creates a human-AI team, where both can step in and out of tasks seamlessly, a step toward truly collaborative agents.
   

3. SWE-1 is not general-purpose—it’s optimized for software engineering, showcasing the value of focused, vertical AI models built with real-world data.

Meta Delays Llama 4 Behemoth

Meta is postponing the release of its major new AI model, “Llama 4 Behemoth,” due to internal concerns about underwhelming improvements. Engineers are reportedly struggling to make the model meaningfully better than earlier versions, raising doubts about whether it's ready for public rollout. The delay reflects broader industry challenges in scaling large AI models and has triggered debate within Meta about the value of its massive AI investment.

Why This Matters

1. Even top-tier AI labs like Meta are hitting limits in improving large models, suggesting diminishing returns at current scales.
   

2. Meta’s multibillion-dollar AI spend is now under question, highlighting growing pressure on labs to deliver real breakthroughs, not just incremental gains.
   

3. Meta’s delay mirrors similar slowdowns at other labs, hinting at a broader inflection point in the AI race where quality beats quantity.
   

U.S., UAE Launch AI Data Partnership

The U.S. and UAE have announced a joint plan to build one of the world’s largest AI data centers in Abu Dhabi, led by Emirati firm G42 with support from undisclosed American tech companies. The facility will span 10 square miles with 5-gigawatt capacity. Key industry leaders like Jensen Huang and Sam Altman were present at the announcement. The project aims to expand U.S.-managed AI services while ensuring strong security protections.

Why This Matters

1. The UAE project represents a major step in decentralizing AI compute power beyond the U.S. and China.
   

2. This cooperation strengthens American influence in global AI development through managed services and security guarantees.
   

3. The presence of CEOs from Nvidia, OpenAI, and SoftBank highlights the significance and scale of the initiative in shaping future AI deployments.

🧠RESEARCH

BLIP3-o: A Family of Fully Open Unified Multimodal Models-Architecture, Training and Dataset

BLIP3-o is a new open-source AI model that combines image understanding and image generation in one system. It uses a novel method to create high-quality image features and trains the model in two steps for better results. The team also released all code, data, and tools to support future research.

DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception

DeCLIP is a new method that improves how AI understands complex images without relying on fixed labels. It fixes a weakness in CLIP by separating image details (“content”) from surrounding context, helping the model better detect and segment objects. DeCLIP outperforms past methods and is available as open-source software.

Insights into DeepSeek-V3: Scaling Challenges and Reflections on Hardware for AI Architectures

This paper analyzes DeepSeek-V3, a large AI model trained on over 2,000 GPUs. It highlights key challenges in scaling AI—like memory and bandwidth limits—and introduces solutions such as smarter attention systems, expert model layers, and faster training methods. The authors also discuss future hardware needs for building even larger and more efficient AI systems.

Marigold: Affordable Adaptation of Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Image Analysis

Marigold is a new method that turns powerful image-generating AI like Stable Diffusion into tools for image analysis tasks, such as depth estimation and surface understanding. It fine-tunes these models with small synthetic datasets, runs on a single GPU, and works well even without retraining on new data—making advanced vision tasks more accessible and affordable.

UniSkill: Imitating Human Videos via Cross-Embodiment Skill Representations

UniSkill is a new system that helps robots learn skills by watching human videos, even without matched human-robot data. It creates shared “skill” representations that work across different body types, allowing robots to imitate human actions using only their own training. Tests show it works in both simulations and real-world tasks.

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📲SOCIAL MEDIA

🗞️MORE NEWS

• Meta released OMol25, the biggest open dataset for AI chemistry, and UMA, a fast universal model that predicts molecular behavior. It also introduced a new method to invent chemical structures without needing tons of data.

• AMD announced a $6 billion stock buyback to boost investor confidence amid slowing AI stock momentum. The move follows a $10B AI partnership with Humain. Despite lagging behind Nvidia and Broadcom, AMD aims to reassure markets about its growth plans, even as its cash flow dropped 33% last quarter.

• A new study finds that groups of AI agents like ChatGPT can form human-like social norms without being told to. When paired repeatedly, the AIs developed shared names and showed collective behavior, much like how humans create language. Researchers say this reveals how AI could start shaping its own culture — and ours.

• Microsoft is testing a hands-free “Hey Copilot!” voice command in Windows 11, letting users launch its AI assistant by speaking. The update, rolling out to select testers, uses on-device voice detection and works offline to listen—but needs internet to respond. It's part of a broader push to make Copilot more conversational and accessible.

• II-Medical-8B is a compact medical AI model that beats much larger systems in clinical reasoning. It runs locally, uses smart training methods, and offers fast, private support for research, education, and decision-making.

• To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google launched AI updates for Android and Chrome, including smarter screen reading, expressive captions, improved speech recognition tools, and easier PDF access—making tech more helpful for everyone, everywhere.

• Scientists created a way to hide secret messages inside AI chatbot text, making them invisible to cybersecurity tools. This could help journalists and citizens communicate safely under censorship, but it also raises ethical concerns.