not much happened today

**Rhymes AI** released **Aria**, a new **25.3B** parameter multimodal MoE model supporting text, code, image, and video with a **64k token context window** and Apache-2.0 license. **OpenAI**'s **o1-preview** and **o1-mini** models show consistent improvement over **Anthropic** and **Google Gemini 1.5 Pro/Flash** on long context RAG benchmarks up to **128k tokens**, while **Google Gemini 1.5** models excel at extreme context lengths up to **2 million tokens**. **Meta AI** expanded rollout to 21 countries with new language support but remains unavailable in the EU. The one-year anniversary of **SWE-bench** benchmark for software engineering tasks was celebrated, alongside the introduction of SWE-bench Multimodal. New AI tools include **OxyCopilot** by Oxylabs for web scraping, **Taipy** for Python-based production apps, and **Latitude** for prompt engineering. Industry insights highlight changing AI funding dynamics and OpenAI's strategic focus on consumer products like ChatGPT. *"all recaps done by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, best of 4 runs."*