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Together AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBench
Together AI has released DeepSWE, a state-of-the-art, fully open-sourced software engineering agent that is trained entirely through reinforcement learning (RL). Built on top of the Qwen3-32B language model, DeepSWE achieves 59% accuracy on the SWEBench-Verified benchmark and 42.2% Pass@1, topping the leaderboard among open-weight models. This launch represents a significant shift for Together AI, from…
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ReasonFlux-PRM: A Trajectory-Aware Reward Model Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs
Understanding the Role of Chain-of-Thought in LLMs Large language models are increasingly being used to solve complex tasks such as mathematics and scientific reasoning through structured chain-of-thought approaches. These models do not just jump to answers—they reason through intermediate steps that simulate logical thought processes. This technique allows for improved reasoning accuracy and clearer error…
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Shanghai Jiao Tong Researchers Propose OctoThinker for Reinforcement Learning-Scalable LLM Development
Introduction: Reinforcement Learning Progress through Chain-of-Thought Prompting LLMs have shown excellent progress in complex reasoning tasks through CoT prompting combined with large-scale reinforcement learning (RL). Models like Deepseek-R1-Zero have shown strong reasoning capabilities by applying RL directly to base models. Similarly, methods such as SimpleRL and Open-ReasonerZero show improvements in smaller models like the Qwen…
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Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
xAI’s gas turbines get official approval from Memphis, Tennessee, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
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AI Is Making Us Dumber, MIT Researchers Find
It’s been theorized that using AI tools like ChatGPT to help with writing tasks will lead to lower brain activity. Now researchers at the MIT Media Lab have discovered strong evidence of that in a newly published study. In the recently published study, titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an…
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“운동 마니아 위한 새로운 AI 안경”···메타, ‘오클리 메타 HSTN’ 공개
메타가 찾은 그 길은 메타버스이고 그 문은 안경이다. 가상 현실, 증강 현실, 혼합 현실이라는 수식어를 달고 세상에 나온 안경을 닮은 헤드셋들이 주춤한 사이, 메타는 ‘AI 안경’이라는 새로운 종족을 탄생시켰다. ‘스타일을 더하다’를 표방한 레이-밴 메타(Ray-Ban Meta)로 시작한 메타는 이제 ‘퍼포먼스를 더하다’를 슬로건으로 내세운 퍼포먼스 AI 안경을 선보였다. 메타가 오클리와 협업을 통해 개발한 ‘오클리 메타 하우스톤’ AI…
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Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game
Microsoft’s layoff of roughly 9,000 employees is continuing to have downstream effects at the company’s subsidiaries. Aftermath reports that as many as 100 developers at Blizzard have been impacted, and as a result the studio is winding down development on its mobile tower defense game Warcraft Rumble. In an announcement, Blizzard wrote that while the…
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AI Doesn’t Have To Be That Hard, Fivetran CEO Says
Complexity seems to be part and parcel of the AI game these days. New technologies demand new tools and new platforms, with a host of new skills to bring it all together. New business models are springing up around AI, with new ways of measuring success. AI can seem so overwhelming, but it doesn’t have…
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Racist videos made with AI are going viral on TikTok
Racist videos that appear to be created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3 have raked in millions of views across TikTok, according to findings from the nonprofit media watchdog Media Matters. The AI-generated videos uncovered by the organization are filled with racist tropes, many of which target Black people. Media Matters determined that…
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Xbox hit hard with layoffs: from cancelled games to a shuttered studio
On July 2nd, Microsoft announced sweeping layoffs affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and they had a big impact on the company’s Xbox studios. Microsoft cancelled Perfect Dark from The Initiative and closed the studio. Rare’s Everwild, announced in 2019, was cancelled, too. And Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios will lose more than 70…