Claude Code 3.7 reclaims top coding model status, while DeepSeek accelerates the release of its R2 AI model.
New Models and Releases
DeepSeek Accelerates R2 AI Model Release: DeepSeek is expediting the release of its R2 AI model, originally planned for May, to an earlier date.
- Apparently DeepSeek will be releasing R2 earlier than previously planned
- Sources: DeepSeek is speeding up the release of its R2 AI model
Alibaba Launches Wan 2.1 Video Model: Alibaba is set to release its new video model, Wan 2.1, on February 25, 2025. The model will be open source, and a promotional event titled "Beyond Vision" is scheduled to broadcast live at 11:00 PM (UTC+8).
- Alibaba video model Wan 2.1 will be released Feb 25th,2025 and is open source!
- WAN Video model launched
DeepSeek Releases DeepEP Communication Library: DeepSeek has released DeepEP, a communication library optimized for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, offering high-throughput and low-latency GPU kernels.
- DeepSeek Realse 2nd Bomb, DeepEP a communication library tailored for MoE model
- DeepSeek 2nd OSS package - DeepEP - Expert parallel FP8 MOE kernels
Anthropic Releases Claude Code 3.7: Anthropic's Claude Code 3.7 demonstrates exceptional engineering intelligence and introduces a new feature allowing users to control the depth of reasoning.
- Claude Code was my “Feel the AGI” moment
- Anthropic’s Claude Code Is Accelerating Software Development Like Never Before
- Breaking: Claude 3.7 delivers GPT-5's promised 'variable intelligence' months early
Claude Sonnet 3.7 Showcases Impressive Capabilities: Claude Sonnet 3.7 has demonstrated impressive 3D city generation and coding capabilities, achieving top scores on various benchmarks.
- OMG Claude Sonnet 3.7 is insane. I got this stunning 3D city with one shot.
- Sonnet 3.7 near clean sweep of EQ-Bench benchmarks
- New LiveBench results just released. Sonnet 3.7 reasoning now tops the charts
- Holy SH*T they cooked. Claude 3.7 coded this game one-shot, 3200 lines of code
- Officially Claude's sonnet 3.7 ≈ o3 mini
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now on Perplexity
QwQ-Max Preview Released: Alibaba has released a preview of QwQ-Max, a new AI model that will be open-weighted under the Apache 2.0 license.
- QwQ-Max Preview is here…
- QwQ-Max-Preview on LiveCodeBench where it performs on par with o1-medium
- QwQ-Max-Preview soon
Proxy Structuring Engine (PSE) Released: A new AI model, the Proxy Structuring Engine (PSE), guarantees 100% structurally valid outputs during generation.
Products and Services
Google Launches Free Gemini Code Assist: Google has launched a free version of Gemini Code Assist, a tool designed to help users build faster with 180,000 code completions per month and support for all public domain programming languages.
- Google is launching a free version of Gemini Code Assist globally
- Google DeepMind Launches Free Gemini Code Assist with 180K Monthly Completions, All Public Languages, and 128K Token Context Window
Perplexity AI Announces Comet Browser: Perplexity AI has launched Comet, an AI-powered browser designed to compete with Google Chrome, integrating NLP capabilities for enhanced browsing.
- Perplexity AI launches Comet, an AI-powered browser that's set to rival Google Chrome
- Comet: A Browser for Agentic Search by Perplexity. Coming soon
WhisperCat v1.4.0 Update: WhisperCat v1.4.0, an open-source audio transcription and post-processing app, has been updated to support FasterWhisper and OpenWebUI.
Announcements and Benchmarks
ARC-AGI-2 Human Testing Completed: The completion of human testing for ARC-AGI-2, a new benchmark focusing on "reasoning efficiency" where frontier AI systems, including o3, face challenges.
Iterative Alignment Theory (IAT) Introduced: A new paradigm for AI-human collaboration called Iterative Alignment Theory (IAT) has been introduced.