Show Notes
A packed day in AI: Thomson Reuters launches its own frontier legal LLM, DeepSeek drops a cheap multimodal API, AWS adds a Chinese lab's model to Bedrock, open-weight models close the gap with frontier systems, a mystery model called OX Alpha turns heads in agentic benchmarks, Alibaba's video AI hits a new milestone, venture capital floods inference infrastructure, Unitree's robotics IPO bubble deflates, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tighten their grip — including a sobering safety disclosure from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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