OpenAI introduces Operator & Agents

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1. OpenAI introduces Operator & Agents

2. Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model

Google has released the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, which explains its reasoning process, sets new performance records in mathematical and scientific tasks, and offers a free alternative to OpenAI's premium services.

The model can process up to one million tokens of text, five times more than OpenAI's o1 Pro model, while maintaining faster response times. The model's reliability and native code execution capabilities make it a serious contender for both research and commercial applications.

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3. Perplexity Assistant

4. Citations on the Anthropic API

Claude, an AI model, is launching Citations, a new API feature that allows users to ground their answers in source documents. This feature aims to verify the sources behind AI-generated responses, reducing the need for complex prompts. Citations is available on the Anthropic API and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

Its built-in citation capabilities outperform most custom implementations, increasing recall accuracy by up to 15%. The feature is used in various use cases, including document summarization, complex Q&A, and customer support.

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5. SmolVLM Grows Smaller – Introducing the 250M & 500M Models!

SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M are the smallest Vision Language Models in the world, with 256M and 500M parameters respectively. These models are built on lessons from SmolVLM 2B, focusing on efficiency, data mixtures, and design trade-offs.

They offer a significant performance bump while remaining lightweight, with a 93M-parameter SigLIP base patch-16/512. The new models are designed for constrained devices, consumer laptops, and browser-based inference, offering a fraction of the cost of the 2B model.

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