not much happened today

**Meta** announced significant adoption of **LLaMA 3.1** with nearly **350 million downloads** on Hugging Face. **Magic AI Labs** introduced **LTM-2-Mini**, a long context model with a **100 million token context window**, and a new evaluation method called HashHop. **LMSys** added style control to their Chatbot Arena leaderboard, improving rankings for models like **Claude 3.5 Sonnet** and **LLaMA 3.1 405B**. **Alibaba** released **Qwen2-VL**, a multimodal LLM under Apache 2.0 license, competitive with **GPT-4o mini**. **OpenAI** CEO **Sam Altman** announced collaboration with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-release model testing. Discussions on AI safety and potential AI takeover risks were highlighted by **Ajeya Cotra**. Tools like **firecrawl** for web crawling and challenges in PDF processing were noted. AI hype cycles and market trends were discussed by **François Chollet**, and potential AI disruption in call centers was shared by **Rohan Paul**.