Everybody shipped small things this holiday weekend

**xAI** announced the **Colossus 100k H100 cluster** capable of training an FP8 GPT-4 class model in 4 days. **Google** introduced **Structured Output** for **Gemini**. **Anthropic** discussed **Claude**'s performance issues possibly due to API prompt modifications. **OpenAI** enhanced controls for File Search in their Assistants API. **Cognition** and **Anthropic** leaders appeared on podcasts. The viral **Kwai-Kolors** virtual try-on model and the open-source real-time audio conversational model **Mini-Omni** (similar to **gpt-4o-voice**) were released. Tutorials on parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA and QLoRA, long-context embedding challenges, and Claude's LaTeX rendering feature were highlighted. **AI21 Labs** released **Jamba 1.5** models with a 256K context window and faster long-context performance. **NVIDIA** debuted **Mistral-Nemo-Minitron-8B** on the Open LLM Leaderboard. **LangChain** introduced resource tags for workspace organization, and a low-code AI app toolkit was shared by **svpino**. Legal AI agents and financial agent evaluations using LangSmith were also featured.