#202 - Qwen-32B, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, LLM Cognitive Behaviors

Our 202nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 03/07/2025

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In this episode:

• Alibaba released Qwen-32B, their latest reasoning model, on par with leading models like DeepMind’s R1.

• Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a funding round, valuing the company at $61.5 billion, solidifying its position as a key competitor to OpenAI.

• DeepMind introduced BigBench Extra Hard, a more challenging benchmark to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models.

• Reinforcement Learning pioneers Andrew Bartow and Rich Sutton were awarded the prestigious Turing Award for their contributions to the field.

Timestamps + Links:

cle picks:

• () Intro / Banter

• () Episode Preview

• () GPT-4.5 Discussion

• () Alibaba’s New QwQ 32B Model is as Good as DeepSeek-R1 ; Outperforms OpenAI’s o1-mini (analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/alibabas…)

• () With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product (theverge.com/amazon-alexa/622172/amazon-alexa-…)

• () Another DeepSeek moment? General AI agent Manus shows ability to handle complex tasks (scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3301283/another-d…)

• () Microsoft’s new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare (theverge.com/news/622528/microsoft-dragon-copi…)

• () Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file (techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/mistrals-new-ocr-api…)

• () A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Closes Deal That Values It at $61.5 Billion (nytimes.com/2025/03/03/technology/anthropic-ai…)

• () Nvidia-Backed CoreWeave Files for IPO, Shows Growing Revenue (finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-backed-coreweave…)

• () Waymo and Uber's Austin robotaxi expansion begins today (engadget.com/transportation/waymo-and-ubers-au…)

• () UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe (bbc.com/news/articles/clyd87dxezvo)

• () Scale AI announces multimillion-dollar defense deal, a major step in U.S. military automation (cnbc.com/2025/03/05/scale-ai-announces-multimi…)

• () DeepSeek Open Source Week: A Complete Summary (apidog.com/blog/deepseek-open-source-week)

• () DeepSeek AI Releases DualPipe: A Bidirectional Pipeline Parallelism Algorithm for Computation-Communication Overlap in V3/R1 Training (marktechpost.com/2025/02/27/deepseek-ai-releas…)

• () Physical Intelligence open-sources Pi0 robotics foundation model (therobotreport.com/physical-intelligence-open-…)

• () BIG-Bench Extra Hard (arxiv.org/abs/2502.19187v1)

• () Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners (arxiv.org/abs/2503.01307)

• () The MASK Benchmark: Disentangling Honesty From Accuracy in AI Systems (arxiv.org/abs/2503.03750)

• () Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award (wired.com/story/pioneers-of-reward-based-machi…)

• () OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research (techcrunch.com/2025/03/04/openai-launches-50m-…)

• () The Nuclear-Level Risk of Superintelligent AI (time.com/7265056/nuclear-level-risk-of-superin…)

• () METR’s GPT-4.5 pre-deployment evaluations (metr.org/blog/2025-02-27-gpt-4-5-evals)

• () Chinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite US export controls (techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/chinese-buyers-are-g…)

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