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March 10, 2025

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LWiAI Podcast #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 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP 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.

March 10, 2025

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Promise and Perils of Using AI for Hiring: Guard Against Data Bias 

By AI Trends Staff   While AI in hiring is now widely used for writing job descriptions, screening candidates, and automating interviews, it poses a risk of wide discrimination if not implemented carefully.  Keith Sonderling, Commissioner, US Equal Opportunity Commission That was the message from Keith Sonderling, Commissioner with the US Equal Opportunity Commision, speaking at the AI World Government event held live and virtually in Alexandria, Va., last week. Sonderling is responsible for enforcing federal laws that prohibit discrimination against job applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability.    “The thought that AI would become mainstream in HR departments was

March 10, 2025

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Chinese AI agent Manus uses Claude Sonnet and open-source technology

Summary Technical information added Update March 10, 2025: X user “Jian” discovered that Manus appears to be using Claude Sonnet with access to 29 tools and the open-source software Browser Use. He found this by requesting the sandbox runtime code from Manus AI. A complete overview of the tools and prompts is available here. Manus chief researcher Yichao “Peak” Ji confirmed the basic system architecture and provided additional technical implementation details. He explained that the sandbox code is only lightly obfuscated and serves solely to receive commands from the AI agents. One of Manus AI’s distinguishing features is its multi-agent

March 10, 2025

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DeepMind’s JetFormer: Unified Multimodal Models Without Modelling Constraints

Recent advancements in training large multimodal models have been driven by efforts to eliminate modeling constraints and unify architectures across domains. Despite these strides, many existing models still rely on separately trained components such as modality-specific encoders and decoders. In a new paper JetFormer: An Autoregressive Generative Model of Raw Images and Text, a Google DeepMind research team introduces JetFormer, a groundbreaking autoregressive, decoder-only Transformer designed to directly model raw data. This model maximizes the likelihood of raw data without depending on any pre-trained components, and is capable of both understanding and generating text and images seamlessly. The team summarizes

March 10, 2025

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AI doesn’t really ‘learn’—and knowing why will help you use it more responsibly

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What if we told you that artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT don’t actually learn? Many people we talk to are genuinely surprised to hear this. Even AI systems themselves will often tell you confidently that they are learning systems. Many reports and even academic papers say the same. But this is due to a misconception—or rather a loose understanding of what we mean by “learning” in AI. Yet, understanding more precisely how and when AI systems learn (and when they don’t) will make you a more productive and more responsible user of AI. AI

March 9, 2025

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Report on the future of AI research

Image taken from the front cover of the Future of AI Research report. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), has published a report on the Future of AI Research. The report, which was announced by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi during the AAAI 2025 conference, covers 17 different AI topics and aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report is the result of a Presidential Panel, chaired by Francesca Rossi, and comprising of 24 experienced AI researchers, who worked on the project between summer 2024 and spring 2025. As well

March 9, 2025

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What It Is, How to Use It, and Real-Life Applications

Ever felt buried under a mountain of tasks, wishing for an extra set of hands to get things done? What if you could offload those tasks and get results without being glued to your screen? Manus – an AI agent from China gaining attention for its ability to handle general tasks with ease. In a short span, it has started making waves, with some even calling it the “second DeepSeek moment” for the AI community. Building on DeepSeek’s legacy of advancing open-source AI in coding and problem-solving, Manus AI takes a step further by focusing on autonomy, independently managing tasks

March 9, 2025

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Meet Manus: A New AI Agent from China with Deep Research + Operator + Computer Use + Lovable + Memory

In today’s digital era, the way we work is rapidly evolving, yet many challenges persist. Conventional AI assistants and manual workflows struggle to keep pace with the complexity and volume of modern tasks. Professionals and businesses face repetitive manual processes, inefficient research methods, and a lack of true automation. While traditional tools offer suggestions and basic automation, they fall short in transforming ideas into actionable results. The demand for a more capable, autonomous agent is evident—one that can seamlessly bridge the gap between human thought and operational execution, freeing users from mundane tasks and enabling them to focus on creativity

March 9, 2025

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Tech Leaders Speak Out for International Women’s Day

Saturday is International Women’s Day, a day devoted to recognizing the critical role that women play across all aspects of society. It’s also an important day in technology, where women make up about 25% of the workforce. To recognize the contributions that women have made in tech and the continued need to push for equality, we have collected selective commentary from women in this field. Hammerspace SVP of Global Marketing Molly Presley has held many roles over the years. In 2023, she joined the executive board of the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC), where she has had a chance