not much happened today

**OpenAI** introduced structured outputs in their API with a new "strict" mode and a "response_format" parameter, supporting models like **gpt-4-0613**, **gpt-3.5-turbo-0613**, and the new **gpt-4o-2024-08-06**. They also halved the price of **gpt-4o** to $2.50 per million tokens. **Mistral Large 2** outperforms **gpt4-turbo** and **claude-3-opus** on hard benchmarks and coding tasks. **Idefics3-Llama** offers multimodal capabilities with a 10k token context window. **BigLlama-3.1-1T-Instruct** is an upscaled version of **llama-3-120b-instruct**. New benchmark "big_model_smell" measures creativity and reliability. **Figure 02** robot features advanced AI hardware with onboard vision language model, enhanced battery, and speech-to-speech reasoning. **Yann LeCun** expressed concerns about California's SB1047 regulation.