2025-12-12
Ai2's new Olmo 3.1 extends reinforcement learning training for stronger reasoning benchmarks
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1.The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transpare [...]
2025-12-12
Google’s new framework helps AI agents spend their compute and tool budget more wisely
In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool and compute budgets. The researchers introduce two new techniques: a simple &quo [...]
2025-12-12
Amazon pulls its bad AI video recaps after Fallout fallout
Amazon has responded to viewers catching errors in its AI-generated season recaps by apparently pulling them from Prime Video. The company announced its new Video Recaps feature in November as a way to make it easier to jump into a new season of a show, but the feature had issues [...]