not much happened today

This week in AI news highlights **Ollama 0.4** supporting **Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision** models (11B and 90B), with applications like handwriting recognition. **Self-Consistency Preference Optimization (ScPO)** was introduced to improve model consistency without human labels. Discussions on **model scaling**, **neural networks resurgence**, and **AMD's multi-GPU bandwidth** challenges were noted. The importance of **skip connections** in **Transformers** was emphasized. In healthcare, **less regulation plus AI** could revolutionize disease treatment and aging. Tools like **LlamaParse** and **Gemini** aid automated resume insights. **Gitpod Flex** demonstrated zero-trust architecture for secure development environments. Research includes surveys on **Small Language Models (SLMs)**, **number understanding** in LLMs, and **DTrOCR** using a **GPT-2 decoder** for OCR. Multi-agent systems in prediction markets were discussed by **TogetherCompute** and **LangChainAI**. Community events include **NeurIPS Happy Hour**, **NLP seminars**, and courses on **Agent Memory** with LLMs as operating systems.