GPT-5.2 Rumored for Dec 9 as ServiceNow’s Apriel-1.6 Challenges Multimodal AI Limits
New AI Models & Releases
ServiceNow Releases Apriel-1.6-15B-Thinker: A multimodal reasoning model with improved text and image capabilities, optimized for efficiency (single-GPU support, 30% fewer reasoning tokens). It achieves competitive benchmark scores and introduces simplified chat templates for easier parsing.
GLM-4.6 Derestricted Released: A modified version of GLM-4.6 targeting reduced censorship and improved creative writing while retaining general assistant capabilities. The model is available on Hugging Face.
GPT-5.2 Rumored for December 9th Release: OpenAI’s next major model update is speculated to launch next week, potentially in response to competitive pressure from Google’s Gemini 3.
AI Product & Service Updates
ChatGPT-Powered Robot "Robert" Open-Sourced: A robotics system enabling seamless switching between manual and AI control, with ChatGPT providing high-level intent for coordinated motion. The full system will be released as open-source.
AI Analysis & Comparisons
Vector Database Comparison for RAG Systems: A breakdown of optimal vector databases by scale—HNSW for <10M vectors, Turbopuffer for large datasets, pgvector for small/local experiments, and Chroma for lightweight use cases.
Criticism of Mistral Large 3 675B: Allegations that the model may not have been trained from scratch, with performance comparisons to DSV3 and speculation about data distillation.