not much happened today

**DeepSeek R1 v2** model released with availability on Hugging Face and inference partners. The **Gemma model family** continues prolific development including **PaliGemma 2**, **Gemma 3**, and others. **Claude 4** and its variants like **Opus 4** and **Claude Sonnet 4** show top benchmark performance, including new SOTA on **ARC-AGI-2** and **WebDev Arena**. **Codestral Embed** introduces a 3072-dimensional code embedder. **BAGEL**, an open-source multimodal model by **ByteDance**, supports reading, reasoning, drawing, and editing with long mixed contexts. Benchmarking highlights include **Nemotron-CORTEXA** topping SWEBench and **Gemini 2.5 Pro** performing on VideoGameBench. Discussions on random rewards effectiveness focus on **Qwen** models. *"Opus 4 NEW SOTA ON ARC-AGI-2. It's happening - I was right"* and *"Claude 4 launch has dev moving at a different pace"* reflect excitement in the community.