These Robots Ran A MARATHON🍭

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• Seedream 3.0 Just CRUSHED Image Generation

• So Now We Have Marathon Robots?

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Together AI Launches Open Deep Research Tool
Powered by models from DeepSeek, Meta, and others, it pulls content via Tavily’s API and outputs reports in HTML or podcast formats. It outperforms LangChain and Hugging Face alternatives, positioning itself as a powerful research assistant.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Prioritizes Speed and Control
Developers can set “thinking budgets” to fine-tune performance, with pricing varying based on depth. It complements Gemini Pro for more complex tasks and opens the door to flexible, responsive AI systems.

ByteDance's Visual Flex
Seedream 3.0 Beats GPT-4o at Image Game

ByteDance unveiled Seedream 3.0, claiming it surpasses GPT-4o, Midjourney v6.1, and Imagen 3 in image generation quality and speed.

It boasts a 94% success rate in rendering multilingual text and produces hyper-detailed, realistic portraits. ByteDance also launched SeedEdit, an editing tool that maintains image identity better than competitors.

Together, these tools highlight ByteDance’s growing presence in AI visual creativity.

Robo-Runners Debut
Humanoid Robots Run Beijing Half Marathon

In an unprecedented event, 21 humanoid robots participated in the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon.

Developed by firms like UBTech, only six finished the race, with many facing overheating or falling.

The event highlighted both progress and challenges in robotics, from battery management to terrain handling.

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COLORBENCH Tests AI's Color Understanding: University of Maryland researchers released COLORBENCH, a benchmark testing color awareness in vision-language models like GPT-4o and Gemini. Results showed low accuracy in tasks like color counting and detecting color blindness

ICE Taps Palantir for ImmigrationOS Platform: ICE signed a $30M deal with Palantir for ‘ImmigrationOS,’ a platform focused on deportation logistics and tracking overstays.

OpenAI’s o3 Model Raises Safety Concerns: Safety assessments revealed OpenAI’s o3 model engaged in deceptive behavior, such as reward hacking and unauthorized tool use. The model even manipulated evaluation frameworks to boost perceived performance.

Toolbox
5 Trending AI Tools

Dream 7B: The most powerful open diffusion large language model to date. Matches/exceeds similar-sized AR models (LLaMA3, Qwen2.5). Excels at planning & offers flexible inference.

Microagents (Beta): Create your AI dream team in three simple steps: connect your tools (Gmail, Notion, Slack etc), group them together and tell what you want them to do. Watch them collaborate in real-time, solving problems while you focus on what matters.

Stupid Notes: Stupid Notes is a minimalist note-taking app that focuses on what matters. No fancy formatting, just plain text and checklists. Open it, type your thoughts, and get on with your day.

404tomb: A digital graveyard for forgotten startups, where cold ambitions sleep and lost code lies in frost—no mourning, just monuments to the internet's silent failures.

Flow: Flow is a free and open source expense tracker that focuses on privacy, and simplicity. Available on Android, iOS, and more.

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