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AI Research - April 2025

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May 04, 2025
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As a THANK YOU to the paid members, we are adding a new monthly special feature: AI Research - Month in Review.

We’re still going to post free and paid articles about the top research papers and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence every week. Now we are adding a monthly digest that will be sent on the first Sunday of every month, exclusively for our growing group of researchers, builders and technology enjoyers!

AI Research - April 2025

Turns out: we already covered the top 2 papers on Hugging Face last month, the very same week they were published!

Feels good to be “on the pulse” and I am committed to staying on top of all this research so we can (do our best) to keep pace with accelerating rocket ship of AI R&D.

The State of AI Agents

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Apr 8
The State of AI Agents

Cutting edge papers with shocking techniques featuring even more shocking results are my favorite thing to breakdown.

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Open Source Multimodal LLMs Reach New Power Levels

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Apr 24
Open Source Multimodal LLMs Reach New Power Levels

Our world isn’t a corpus of text. It’s filled with sights, sounds and data in all kinds of structures. LLMs are confined to text-only.

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In addition to those two landmark papers from April 2025, we’re going to break down two more cutting edge papers and talk through their implications for artificial intelligence and society more broadly.

We’ve talked about self-rewarding models before.

But what about RL with rewards that are verifiable? That’s precisely what our first paper explored. The most exciting part of this new monthly series will fusing the insights from the different top research papers together and plotting the AI trajectory using this meta analysis.

Let’s get into the research.

Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

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