Q3 Earnings Week!

  • [Announcement] OpenAI’s browser.

  • [Announcement] Airbnb’s new social features. Relevant TechCrunch article.

  • [Report] Perplexity’s projection as a productivity environment.

  • [Announcement] Claude also has a desktop surface now.

  • [Paper] muTransfer - Hyperparams can be tuned on a small proxy model once and for all. For mature tuning stacks, this basically means not much hyperparam tuning is needed. Relevant previous work.

  • [Paper] Deepseek OCR - vision encoding of a screenshot containing text seems more token-efficient than the text encoding of the text itself.

  • [Paper] TokDrift - Mismatch between the natural-language origin of BPE and the coding task.

  • [Paper] TimeGPT - Pretrained model for time series.

  • [Article] WhatsApp to ban chatbots.

  • [Tweet] ChatGPT will have erotica for verified adults.

Have a great week!

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