Not much happened today

**Sakana AI** released **Reinforcement-Learned Teachers (RLTs)**, a novel technique using smaller 7B parameter models trained via reinforcement learning to teach reasoning through step-by-step explanations, accelerating **Chain-of-Thought** learning. **Mistral AI** updated **Mistral Small 3.2** improving instruction following and function calling with experimental FP8 quantization. **Google Magenta RealTime**, an 800M parameter open-weights model for real-time music generation, was released. **Arcee AI** launched **AFM-4.5B**, a sub-10B parameter foundation model extended from **Llama 3**. **OpenThinker3-7B** was introduced as a new state-of-the-art 7B reasoning model with a 33% improvement over **DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B**. The **STORM** text-video model compresses video input by 8x using **Mamba layers** and outperforms **GPT-4o** on MVBench with 70.6%. Discussions on reinforcement learning algorithms PPO vs. GRPO and insights on **DINOv2**'s performance on ImageNet-1k were also highlighted. *"A very quiet day"* in AI news with valuable workshops from **OpenAI**, **Amazon**, and **GDM**.