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MIT Research Challenges Notion of AI Having Coherent Value Systems

MIT researchers have published a study contradicting previous claims that sophisticated AI systems develop coherent value systems or preferences. Their research found that current AI models, including those from Meta, Google, Mistral, OpenAI, and Anthropic, display highly inconsistent preferences that vary dramatically based on how prompts are framed, suggesting these systems are fundamentally imitators rather than entities with stable beliefs.

Deep Cogito Unveils Open Hybrid AI Models with Toggleable Reasoning Capabilities

Deep Cogito has emerged from stealth mode introducing the Cogito 1 family of openly available AI models featuring hybrid architecture that allows switching between standard and reasoning modes. The company claims these models outperform existing open models of similar size and will soon release much larger models up to 671 billion parameters, while explicitly stating its ambitious goal of building "general superintelligence."

Meta Launches Advanced Llama 4 AI Models with Multimodal Capabilities and Trillion-Parameter Variant

Meta has released its new Llama 4 family of AI models, including Scout, Maverick, and the unreleased Behemoth, featuring multimodal capabilities and more efficient mixture-of-experts architecture. The models boast improvements in reasoning, coding, and document processing with expanded context windows, while Meta has also adjusted them to refuse fewer controversial questions and achieve better political balance.

OpenAI's o3 Reasoning Model May Cost Ten Times More Than Initially Estimated

The Arc Prize Foundation has revised its estimate of computing costs for OpenAI's o3 reasoning model, suggesting it may cost around $30,000 per task rather than the initially estimated $3,000. This significant cost reflects the massive computational resources required by o3, with its highest-performing configuration using 172 times more computing than its lowest configuration and requiring 1,024 attempts per task to achieve optimal results.

Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Pro with Advanced Reasoning Capabilities

Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI models with built-in reasoning capabilities that pauses to "think" before answering questions. The flagship model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, outperforms competing AI models on several benchmarks including code editing and supports a 1 million token context window (expanding to 2 million soon).

New ARC-AGI-2 Test Reveals Significant Gap Between AI and Human Intelligence

The Arc Prize Foundation has created a challenging new test called ARC-AGI-2 to measure AI intelligence, designed to prevent models from relying on brute computing power. Current leading AI models, including reasoning-focused systems like OpenAI's o1-pro, score only around 1% on the test compared to a 60% average for human panels, highlighting significant limitations in AI's general problem-solving capabilities.

OpenAI's Noam Brown Claims Reasoning AI Models Could Have Existed Decades Earlier

OpenAI's AI reasoning research lead Noam Brown suggested at Nvidia's GTC conference that certain reasoning AI models could have been developed 20 years earlier if researchers had used the right approach. Brown, who previously worked on game-playing AI including Pluribus poker AI and helped create OpenAI's reasoning model o1, also addressed the challenges academia faces in competing with AI labs and identified AI benchmarking as an area where academia could make significant contributions despite compute limitations.

Researchers Propose "Inference-Time Search" as New AI Scaling Method with Mixed Expert Reception

Google and UC Berkeley researchers have proposed "inference-time search" as a potential new AI scaling method that involves generating multiple possible answers to a query and selecting the best one. The researchers claim this approach can elevate the performance of older models like Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro to surpass newer reasoning models like OpenAI's o1-preview on certain benchmarks, though AI experts express skepticism about its broad applicability beyond problems with clear evaluation metrics.

Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics Models for Advanced Robot Control

Google DeepMind has announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to control physical robots for tasks like object manipulation and environmental navigation via voice commands. The models reportedly demonstrate generalization capabilities across different robotics hardware and environments, with DeepMind releasing a slimmed-down version called Gemini Robotics-ER for researchers along with a safety benchmark named Asimov.

OpenAI Develops Advanced Creative Writing AI Model

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company has trained a new AI model with impressive creative writing capabilities, particularly in metafiction. Altman shared a sample of the model's writing but did not provide details on when or how it might be released, noting this is the first time he's been genuinely impressed by AI-generated literature.