not much happened today

**Gemini 2.5 Flash** shows a **12 point increase** in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index but costs **150x more** than Gemini 2.0 Flash due to **9x more expensive output tokens** and **17x higher token usage** during reasoning. **Mistral Medium 3** competes with **Llama 4 Maverick**, **Gemini 2.0 Flash**, and **Claude 3.7 Sonnet** with better coding and math reasoning at a significantly lower price. **Alibaba's Qwen3** family supports reasoning and multilingual tasks across **119 languages** and includes a **Web Dev** tool for app building. **Huawei's Pangu Ultra MoE** matches **DeepSeek R1** performance on Ascend NPUs, with new compute and upcoming V4 training. **OpenAI's o4-mini** now supports **Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT)** using chain-of-thought reasoning. **Microsoft's X-REASONER** enables generalizable reasoning across modalities post-trained on general-domain text. Deep research integration with GitHub repos in ChatGPT enhances codebase search and reporting. The AI Engineer World's Fair offers an Early Bird discount for upcoming tickets.