Not much happened today

**Ilya Sutskever** steps down as Chief Scientist at **OpenAI** after nearly a decade, with **Jakub Pachocki** named as his successor. **Google DeepMind** announces **Gemini 1.5 Pro** and **Gemini 1.5 Flash** models featuring 2 million token context and improved multimodal capabilities, alongside demos of **Project Astra** AI assistant, **Imagen 3** text-to-image model, and **Veo** generative video model. **GPT-4o** tops the VHELM leaderboard and outperforms competitors on LMSYS Chatbot Arena. **Reka Core** multimodal model with 128K context and **Alibaba's Qwen1.5-110B** open-source model are released. **Salesforce** shares an online RLHF recipe.