not much happened today

**Answer.ai** launched **fastdata**, a synthetic data generation library using `claudette` and Tencent's Billion Persona paper. **NotebookLM** became customizable, and **Motherduck** introduced notable LLMs in SQL implementations. **Perplexity** and **Dropbox** announced competitors to **Glean**. **OpenAI** unveiled audio chat completions priced at 24 cents per minute. **Meta AI** released **Llama 3.1**, powering Lenovo AI Now's on-device agent. **Yi-Lightning** model ranked #6 globally, surpassing **GPT-4o**. **Zyphra AI** released the large **Zyda-2** dataset with 5 trillion tokens. **François Chollet** clarified transformer architecture as set-processing, not sequence-processing. Research suggests memorization aids LLM reasoning. **Anthropic** updated its Responsible Scaling Policy for AI safety. Tools like **Perplexity Finance**, **Open Canvas** by **LangChain**, and **AlphaCodium** code generation tool were highlighted. Approximately $500 million was raised for AI agent startups, with ongoing discussions on AI's job market impact. Combining prompt caching with the Batches API can yield a 95% discount on **Claude 3.5 Sonnet** tokens.