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Happy Tuesday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

In today’s edition:

• Is GPT-5 development slowing down? 🐢

• Qwen unveils powerful new open-source coding AI 💻

• The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI 🌊

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources 🤖

Ready, set, go…

OPENAI

Is GPT-5 development slowing down? 🐢

OpenAI is developing a new flagship model, "Orion," which has reached GPT-4-level performance with only 20% of its training. However, its progress seems slower than previous models, especially in coding tasks, likely due to limited high-quality data.

Here's what you need to know:

• Researchers attribute the slower pace of progress to a lack of high-quality data.

• Despite this, Sam Altman predicts that AGI could be achieved by 2025, and sees future advancements as more engineering-driven than reliant on new scientific breakthroughs.

• OpenAI researcher Noam Brown supports Altman’s view, suggesting that advances like the o1 model could fuel ongoing AI growth.

Conclusion:

The reports suggest that normal LLMs without reasoning are rather hitting their limits, while reasoning-based models still have room for growth and potential.

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ALIBABA

Qwen unveils powerful new open-source coding AI 💻

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen has unveiled new open-source AI coding models, including its top 32B version, matching GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet's performance.

Here’s what you need to know:

• The Qwen2.5-Coder series offers six models, from 0.5B to 32B parameters, for various tasks.

• The 32B model excels in code generation, debugging, and problem-solving.

• These models work with popular development tools like Cursor and support over 40 programming languages.

• Each model size comes in two versions: a base model for fine-tuning and an instruction-tuned version ready to use right away.

• Licensed under Apache 2.0 and available on Hugging Face.

Why it matters:

AI's ability to write and fix code is getting better quickly, and open-source models like Qwen are now competing with top models. This makes advanced coding tools available to a much wider audience, even for those with no coding experience.

AI SLOP

The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI 🌊

A dramatic photo from recent floods in Valencia, Spain, went viral on social media, with many users speculating it was AI-generated.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Captured with a telephoto lens, the image shows over 70 cars scattered down a narrow street after a “rain bomb” dumped a year’s worth of rain in a day.

• Though confirmed as real through tools like Apple Maps and Street View, viewers doubted its authenticity due to the glossy car surfaces and lack of visible damage.

• This skepticism reflects a growing public distrust, fueled by the flood of AI-generated content that blurs the line between real and artificial.

Why it matters:

This trend, known as “AI slop,” fills social feeds with synthetic images that are hard to distinguish from reality. Social platforms and content creators profit from these viral, often misleading posts, potentially undermining trust in online media and pushing platforms toward a credibility crisis.

BREAKING BYTES

1. Google DeepMind has made AlphaFold 3 model open source for academic use, allowing access to its code and model weights. It can generate the 3D structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and smaller molecules while also revealing how they fit together. (1 minute read)

2. The free version of AI chatbot Grok on Platform X is about to launch soon, supporting up to 20 conversations every 2 hours. (View post)

3. The U.S. Commerce Department has ordered TSMC to stop shipping AI chips to China. (2 minutes read)

4. Microsoft launched TinyTroupe, an AI agent-powered tool that simulates people with distinct personalities, interests, and goals. These agents can listen, reply back, and live in tiny virtual environments, helping with imagination and business insights. (4 minutes read)

5. OpenAI and others seek a new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations. (2 minutes read)

6. LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors. (3 minutes read)

TRENDING TOOLS

• AI App Generator > Turn AI ideas into working apps in seconds. (link)

• Maibrain > Create your clone and preserve all your knowledge, keeping it alive forever. (link)

• Spiky > Delivers real-time insights to double revenue by identifying and scaling winning sales behaviors. (link)

• Invofox > Verifies and turns documents like invoices and bank statements into accurate, structured data. (link)

COOL FINDINGS / RESOURCES

• How to use GPT-4o for $0 with Bolt AI. (link)

• Short course: Learn how to build agentic memory into your applications. (link)

• This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery. (link)

• Hacks and tips to make AI work better for you. (link)

• How to use Microsoft Copilot to handle your financial tasks. (link)

• Build any AI agent with Flowise and Cursor. (link)

• The $3T AI opportunity almost everyone missed. (link)

CONTENT CORNER

Context Inc. just unveiled Context Autopilot. It learns like you, thinks like you, and uses tools like you.

A great list of AI agents and tools for workspace.

New procedural 3d modeling builds unique buildings and includes a traffic system where cars follow traffic signals and drive intelligently.

What happens when Robots don’t need us anymore?

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

That’s all for today’s issue, folks.

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