Not much happened today

**Grok Beta** surpasses **Llama 3.1 70B** in intelligence but is less competitive due to its pricing at **$5/1M input tokens** and **$15/1M output tokens**. **Defense Llama**, developed with **Meta AI** and **Scale AI**, targets American national security applications. **SWE-Kit**, an open-source framework, supports building customizable AI software engineers compatible with **Llama 3**, **ChatGPT**, and **Claude**. **LangChainAI** and **Weights & Biases** integrate to improve retrievers and reduce hallucinations in **RAG applications** using **Gemini**. **Perplexity AI** offers enhanced election tracking tools for the **2024 elections**, including live state results and support for **Claude 3.5 Haiku**. **AI Talk** launched featuring discussions on Chinese AI labs with guests from **Qwen**. Memes highlight **Elon Musk** and humorous AI coding mishaps.