not much happened today

The **Qwen team** launched **QVQ**, a vision-enabled version of their experimental **QwQ o1 clone**, benchmarking comparably to **Claude 3.5 Sonnet**. Discussions include **Bret Taylor's** insights on autonomous software development distinct from the Copilot era. The **Latent Space LIVE!** talks cover highlights of **2024 AI startups, vision, open models, post-transformers, synthetic data, smol models, and agents**. Twitter recaps by **Claude 3.5 Sonnet** highlight proposals for benchmarks measuring LLM calibration and falsehood confidence, with **QVQ** outperforming **GPT-4o** and **Claude Sonnet 3.5**. AI alignment debates focus on intentionality and critiques of alignment faking in models like **Claude**. Updates from **OpenAI** include new **o3 and o3-mini models** and a deliberative alignment strategy. The **ASAL project** is a collaboration between **MIT**, **OpenAI**, and **Swiss AI Lab IDSIA** to automate artificial life discovery. Personal stories reveal frustrations with **USCIS** green card denials despite high qualifications. New tools like **GeminiCoder** enable rapid app creation, and a **contract review agent** using **Reflex** and **Llama Index** checks GDPR compliance. Holiday greetings and memes were also shared.