not much happened today
**Google DeepMind** announced updates to **Gemini 2.0**, including an upgraded **Flash Thinking model** with stronger reasoning and native image generation capabilities. **Cohere** launched **Command A**, a **111B** parameter dense model with a **256K context window** and competitive pricing, available on **Hugging Face**. **Meta AI** proposed **Dynamic Tanh (DyT)** as a replacement for normalization layers in Transformers, supported by **Yann LeCun**. **Alibaba** released **QwQ-32B**, a **32.5B** parameter model excelling in math and coding, fine-tuned with reinforcement learning and freely available under **Apache 2.0 license**. **Google DeepMind** also released **Gemma 3** models ranging from **1B to 27B** parameters with a **128K token context window** and over **140 language** support, plus **ShieldGemma 2**, an image safety checker. Benchmarking shows **Gemma 3 27B** has strong vision and memory efficiency but is outperformed by larger models like **Llama 3.3 70B** and **DeepSeek V3 671B**. The **Hugging Face LLM leaderboard** history was shared by @_lewtun.