not much happened today

**OpenAI's o1-preview and o1-mini models** lead benchmarks in Math, Hard Prompts, and Coding. **Qwen 2.5 72B** model shows strong performance close to **GPT-4o**. **DeepSeek-V2.5** tops Chinese LLMs, rivaling **GPT-4-Turbo-2024-04-09**. **Microsoft's GRIN MoE** achieves good results with 6.6B active parameters. **Moshi voice model** from Kyutai Labs runs locally on Apple Silicon Macs. **Perplexity app** introduces voice mode with push-to-talk. **LlamaCoder** by Together.ai uses **Llama 3.1 405B** for app generation. **Google DeepMind's Veo** is a new generative video model for YouTube Shorts. The **2024 ARC-AGI competition** increases prize money and plans a university tour. A survey on model merging covers 50+ papers for LLM alignment. The **Kolmogorov–Arnold Transformer (KAT)** paper proposes replacing MLP layers with KAN layers for better expressiveness. **Hugging Face Hub** integrates with **Google Cloud Vertex AI Model Garden** for easier open-source model deployment. **Agent.ai** is introduced as a professional network for AI agents. *"Touching grass is all you need."*