not much happened to end the week
AI News for 11/29/2024-11/30/2024 covers key updates including the Gemini multimodal model advancing in musical structure understanding, a new quantized SWE-Bench for benchmarking at 1.3 bits per task, and the launch of the DeepSeek-R1 model focusing on transparent reasoning as an alternative to o1. The establishment of the 1st International Network of AI Safety Institutes highlights global collaboration on AI safety. Industry updates feature Amazon's Olympus AI model, Tesla's Optimus, and experiments with ChatGPT as a universal translator. Community reflections emphasize the impact of large language models on daily life and medical AI applications. Discussions include scaling sparse autoencoders to gpt-4 and the need for transparency in reasoning LLMs. The report also notes humor around ChatGPT's French nickname.