Gemini 2.5 Pro (06-05) launched at AI Engineer World's Fair

At the second day of **AIE**, **Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro** reclaimed the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard with a score of **1470** and a +24 Elo increase, showing improvements in coding, reasoning, and math. **Qwen3** released state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models, with **Qwen3-Embedding-8B** topping the MTEB multilingual leaderboard. **OpenThinker3-7B** emerged as the top open reasoning model trained on the **OpenThoughts3-1.2M dataset**, outperforming previous models by 33%. **LightOn** introduced **FastPlaid**, achieving up to a 554% speedup for late-interaction models. **Morph Labs** hired **Christian Szegedy** as Chief Scientist to lead Verified Superintelligence development. The **AI Engineer World's Fair** featured a fireside chat with **Greg Brockman** and **NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang**, highlighting the return of basic research and engineering best practices.