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Trump administration officially rescinds Biden’s AI diffusion rules | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/trump-administration-officially-rescinds-bidens-ai-diffusion-rules/

Saudi Arabia launches state-backed AI firm Humain https://www.techinasia.com/news/saudi-arabia-launches-statebacked-ai-firm-humain

ngl i respect the qwen team so much for throwing thirty six TRILLION tokens on a 600M, equal part impressive and hilarious”” / X https://x.com/qtnx_/status/1922398353985241438

Qwen just dropped optimised GPTQ, GGUF & AWQ for Qwen3 🔥 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1921956656226668964

We’re officially releasing the quantized models of Qwen3 today! Now you can deploy Qwen3 via Ollama, LM Studio, SGLang, and vLLM — choose from multiple formats including GGUF, AWQ, and GPTQ for easy local deployment. Find all models in the Qwen3 collection on Hugging Face and https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1921907010855125019

Autonomous AI Agent framework uses Qwen 3 with MCP to build and deploy a documentation website from GitHub repository. All of this from a simple prompt in just 2 minutes. 100% Opensource. https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1919800022566351345

Bytedance, opensourced DeerFlow (Deep Exploration and Efficient Research Flow) LLM + Langchain + tools (web search, crawler, code exec). Its a community-driven Deep Research framework. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1921839892503392326

Mistral released two big products: —Medium 3, a multimodal AI that matches or surpasses 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4 Maverick at 8x less cost —Le Chat Enterprise, an agentic AI assistant for businesses with tools like Google Drive and agent building https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1921597108567617585

Mistral just made two big reveals: —Medium 3, a multimodal AI matching or surpassing 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4 Maverick across benchmarks with 8x lower costs —Le Chat Enterprise with corporate tools like Google Drive, agent building, and more https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1920384477093568886

AWS-and-HUMAIN-Announce-Groundbreaking-AI-Zone-to-Accelerate-AI-Adoption-in-Saudi-Arabia-and-Globally – US Press Center https://press.aboutamazon.com/2025/5/aws-and-humain-announce-groundbreaking-ai-zone-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-in-saudi-arabia-and-globally

Introducing AI Alive: Bringing Your Photos to Life on TikTok Stories – Newsroom | TikTok https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/introducing-tiktok-ai-alive

Tencent released HunyuanCustom, an open-source AI system for video generation — powered by HunyuanVideo-13B It generates customized video from text, images, audio, and video inputs with consistent subjects Outperforms open-source rivals! https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1921815682540343488

UAE partners with Italian startup for AI supercomputer | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/italy-uae-announce-deal-artificial-intelligence-hub-2025-05-16/

SoftBank Stargate Venture With OpenAI Snags on Tariff Fears – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/softbank-stargate-venture-with-openai-hits-snags-on-tariff-fears?embedded-checkout=true

Expanding TikTok’s Mental Health Education Fund and well-being features – Newsroom | TikTok https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-expanding-mental-health-education-fund-and-wellbeing-features

Bytedance just dropped Seed1.5-VL on Hugging Face Achieves top performance with a relatively modest architecture, 532M vision encoder & 20B active parameter MoE LLM. Delivers State-of-the-Art results on 38 out of 60 public VLM benchmarks, demonstrating broad competence. https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1922318117385932993

Underrated: DeepSeek has established a new LLM default, the first time for a non-US lab. GPT-3 ==> BLOOM-176B, Jurassic-178B, OPT-175B, GLM-130B… Chinchilla ==> LLaMA-1 ==> L2, 3, Qwen 1…2.5, DeepSeek-V1 etc… DeepSeek-V2 ==> V3, Minimax, L4-Maverick, Qwen3, Doubao, Pangu etc.”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1920749432242340168

> [Notice] DeepSeek API (paid service) has completed server expansion, increasing capacity for development. Welcome to test! First confirmation that we have that DeepSeek has gained new compute. I suppose V4 training starts soon or has started. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1920733123081306208

DeepSeek Punctured the Myth That Silicon Valley Could Control AI In just two years, China’s open-source AI movement allowed it to virtually close the gap with its US peers. https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1921374572131254516

Pope Leo signals he will closely follow Francis and says AI represents challenge for humanity | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/europe/pope-leo-prevost-cardinals-artificial-intelligence-intl

China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/amp/

In China: Deploy first, ask safety questions later. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1920368963088728313

This Canadian pharmacist is key figure behind world’s most notorious deepfake porn site https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7527626

ByteDance just dropped DreamO on Hugging Face A Unified Framework for Image Customization With a single model, DreamO supports ID, IP, Try-On, and Style tasks, and even allows multi-condition inputs. It’s lightweight, performant, and achieves state-of-the-art results across https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1921948350145815010

Exciting news, we’re officially building Cartesia’s India team in Bangalore. We’ll start with a 5 person team in-person in Bangalore, and grow from there. I’ve had the opportunity to spend the last quarter talking to a lot of folks from the Indian tech ecosystem to understand”” / X https://x.com/krandiash/status/1922016592621404407

let’s gooo – ByteDance dropped SeedCoder 8B (Instruct & Reasoning) – Beats Qwen Coder AND DeepSeek Coder – MIT Licensed 🔥 Works out of the box with Transformers, llama.cpp and vLLM 🤗 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1921128481229812221

NICE! @PrimeIntellect open sourced Intellect 2 – 32B reasoning model post-trained using GRPO via distributed asynchronous RL – beats QwQ 32B – Apache 2.0 licensed💥 Works with transformers, llama.cpp, vllm and more! ⚡ https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1921948704061202725

Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says  | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/microsoft-employees-are-banned-from-using-deepseek-app-president-says/

Tencent hires WizardLM team, a Microsoft AI group with an odd history | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/tencent-hires-wizardlm-team-a-microsoft-ai-group-with-an-odd-history/

Congrats @MistralAI on releasing the new Mistral Medium 3 🎉! Mistral 3 performs strong against best proprietary models (GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Llama-4) across hard benchmarks. It’s also multi-modal with vision support. Now let’s test it live with your toughest prompts! https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1921667566767845770

Mistral Medium 3 independent evals: Mistral is back amongst the leading non-reasoning models with Medium 3 rivalling Llama 4 Maverick, Gemini 2.0 Flash and Claude 3.7 Sonnet Key takeaways: ➤ Intelligence: We see substantial intelligence gains across all 7 of our evals compared https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1920295575591006671

OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly struggling to get off the ground, thanks to tariffs | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/openais-stargate-project-reportedly-struggling-to-get-off-the-ground-thanks-to-tariffs/

Releasing the OpenAI to Z Challenge — using o3/o4 mini and GPT 4.1 models to discover previously unknown archaeological sites:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1923105670464782516

Today marks a really big achievement for Nous, but also potentially the AI Landscape. We have begun a decentralized pretraining run of what is basically a dense Deepseek – 40B parameters, over 20T tokens, with MLA for long context efficiency. All checkpoints, unannealed, https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1922778056290419166

Token usage and efficiency: Medium 3 uses substantially more tokens, due to more verbose responses, than Mistral Large 2 to run our Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1920295585451835522

AM-Thinking-v1 looks like a strong 32B reasoning model. It outperforms DeepSeek-R1 and rivals Qwen3-235B-A22B. All built on top of open-source. The 32B scale is a great size for deployment and fine-tuning. Best part: the model is open-sourced! https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1922668488826741061

AM-Thinking-v1: Advancing the Frontier of Reasoning at 32B Scale Performs on par with Qwen3-235B-A22B and Seed1.5-Thinking while being built entirely from the open-source Qwen2.5-32B base model and publicly available queries https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1922483522549252200

Qwen3 model family overview: full benchmarks for all 8 Qwen3 models in both reasoning and non-reasoning modes Key results: ➤ Qwen3 235B-A22B (Reasoning): The largest Qwen3 model scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, becoming the most intelligent open weights https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1922317655643717887

New GRPO notebook for Qwen3 Base! It’s much harder to RL base models since GRPO first needs to learn formatting like <think></think> By “”priming”” on some formatted samples, we bypass this issue & create good LoRA priors before GRPO vLLM 0.8.5 is also supported now with Unsloth!”” / X https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1922345308916216087

Alibaba introduced Qwen3, a family of eight open large language models, including two mixture-of-experts (MoE) models and six dense models ranging from 32B to 0.6B parameters. All support an optional reasoning mode and multilingual capabilities across 119 languages. https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1920614690813550930

Spin up Qwen3 @Alibaba_Qwen + SGLang @lmsysorg on H100 in one command:”” / X https://x.com/skypilot_org/status/1922341585250881967

@Alibaba_Qwen Great job guys!!!”” / X https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1922322833847300156

@Alibaba_Qwen Great work Qwen team! 💪”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1922294726209724656

🚀 One line. A full webpage. No hassle. Introducing Web Dev – the ultimate tool for building stunning frontend webpages & apps using simple prompts in Qwen Chat. 🎨 Just say, “”create a twitter website”” — and boom! Instant code, ready to go. No coding required. Just your https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1920848175457591406

Please check out our Qwen3 Technical Report. 👇🏻 https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1922265772811825413

China’s AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ai-powered-humanoid-robots-aim-transform-manufacturing-2025-05-13/

🚀 Partnership Announcement 🔥 Reborn is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking strategic partnership with @UnitreeRobotics . This collaboration marks a significant step forward in the development of data, models, and humanoid robotics, with the shared goal to accelerate https://x.com/reborn_agi/status/1919384254842032485

Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing reflects on his pre-late-2019 struggles to keep the company afloat. He believes no one has cracked general-purpose manipulation yet, though the world is heading there fast. For now, he’s focused on commercially viable applications in entertainment, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1922320418800861247

CL-3, a 5’5″” humanoid robot built by Chinese company LimX Dynamics https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1920737242428952780

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