Not much happened today.

**Meta** introduced **Meta 3D Gen**, a system for end-to-end generation of 3D assets from text in under 1 minute, producing high-quality 3D assets with detailed textures. **Perplexity AI** updated Pro Search to handle deeper research with multi-step reasoning and code execution. **Microsoft** improved **Phi-3 Mini** with better long-context understanding and instruction following. **GPT4All 3.0** launched with support for thousands of models and major OS compatibility, featuring local file chat. **Yi-Large** model launched on Fireworks AI Playground. Research highlights include the evolution of **reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)**, persona-driven data synthesis using a billion diverse personas, meta-tuning for few-shot generalization, and steering vectors for model behavior control. Tools updates include **LangSmith** improving memory retrieval and **Qdrant Engine v1.10** adding universal query API and multivector search.