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  1. 2026

    Muse Spark Safety & Preparedness Report

    arXiv

    Meta's safety and preparedness report for Muse Spark, the model behind Meta AI, sets out the catastrophic-risk evaluations behind its launch and argues that, with mitigations applied, residual risk is acceptable.

    Large language modelsFoundation modelsSafety & governance

  2. 2026

    DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

    arXiv

    A preview report on the DeepSeek-V4 series, describing a 1.6-trillion-parameter Pro model and a 284-billion-parameter Flash model, both with one-million-token context, plus the attention, connection and optimization changes that make that length affordable.

    Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

  3. 2025

    Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

    arXiv

    The Gemini 2.5 technical report, submitted to arXiv on 7 July 2025, documents Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash models: their reasoning, long-context video handling, and cost-versus-capability positioning.

    Large language modelsFoundation modelsMultimodal

  4. 2025

    ARC-AGI-2: A New Challenge for Frontier AI Reasoning Systems

    arXiv

    A 2025 paper introducing ARC-AGI-2, a benchmark of input-output puzzle tasks built to measure abstract reasoning in frontier AI systems, with human testing as a baseline and a task set designed to give a more granular signal of progress.

    Research historyReasoningSimulation

  5. 2024

    DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

    arXiv

    A technical report from DeepSeek-AI on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture-of-experts language model with 671 billion total parameters, describing its architecture, training pipeline, and evaluations, including a full training run of 2.788 million H800 GPU hours.

    Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

  6. 2024

    The Llama 3 Herd of Models

    arXiv

    Meta's 2024 paper describing Llama 3 as a family of foundation models — 8B, 70B and 405B parameters — trained on about 15 trillion tokens and reported to match leading models such as GPT-4 across a wide range of tasks.

    Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

  7. 2024

    Transformers are SSMs: Generalized Models and Efficient Algorithms Through Structured State Space Duality

    ICML

    Tri Dao and Albert Gu's paper introduces state space duality, a framework showing that structured state space models and attention variants are closely related, and uses it to derive Mamba-2, whose core layer runs 2 to 8 times faster than Mamba's.

    Research historyDeep learningTransformers & attention

  8. 2024

    Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

    arXiv

    A report from Google's Gemini Team introducing the Gemini 1.5 family, multimodal models built around very long context, with Gemini 1.5 Pro recalling information across up to 10 million tokens.[^1]

    Large language modelsResearch historyFoundation models

  9. 2022

    Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

    Science

    GraphCast is a graph neural network trained on four decades of reanalysis data that produces 10-day global weather forecasts at 0.25 degree resolution in under a minute, outperforming the leading operational deterministic systems on most verification targets.

    Deep learningScienceSimulation

  10. 2022

    Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers (DiT)

    arXiv

    A 2022 paper by William Peebles and Saining Xie that replaces the U-Net backbone of diffusion models with a transformer operating on latent patches, showing that image quality improves predictably as compute grows and reaching a state-of-the-art FID of 2.27 on ImageNet 256×256.

    Research historyGenerative modelsImage generation

  11. 2022

    Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding (Imagen)

    arXiv

    Imagen is a text-to-image diffusion model that uses a large pretrained language model to encode prompts; it reached a zero-shot FID of 7.27 on COCO and introduced the DrawBench benchmark.

    Research historyMultimodalGenerative models

  12. 2022

    Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models (Chinchilla)

    NeurIPS

    A DeepMind study showing that, for a fixed computing budget, language models should be trained on far more data than was then standard; its 70-billion-parameter Chinchilla beat larger contemporaries.

    Large language modelsFoundation modelsData & datasets

  13. 2022

    Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning

    Nature

    A 2022 Nature paper by Degrave, Felici and colleagues showing that a deep reinforcement learning controller can learn on its own to command all of a tokamak's magnetic control coils, producing and holding a range of plasma shapes.

    Deep learningHardware & computeScience

  14. 2021

    High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

    arXiv 2112.10752 (CVPR 2022)

    A 2021 paper by Rombach, Blattmann, Lorenz, Esser and Ommer that runs diffusion models inside the latent space of pretrained autoencoders, cutting the compute needed for high-resolution image synthesis while adding cross-attention for text and bounding-box control.

    Research historyGenerative modelsImage generation

  15. 2021

    Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation (DALL·E)

    arXiv

    A 2021 OpenAI paper describing a single 12-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer trained on 250 million image-text pairs, which generates images from text and, evaluated zero-shot, is competitive with domain-specific models.

    Research historyMultimodalGenerative models

  16. 2021

    Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision (CLIP)

    ICML

    CLIP is an OpenAI model trained on 400 million image-text pairs to map pictures and sentences into one shared space, so it can classify images zero-shot from a written description.

    Foundation modelsMultimodalComputer vision

  17. 2020

    An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale (ViT)

    arXiv

    A 2020 paper showing that a plain Transformer applied directly to sequences of image patches, with no convolution at all, can match state-of-the-art convolutional networks on image classification.

    Research historyDeep learningComputer vision

  18. 2020

    An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale

    arXiv 2010.11929 (ICLR 2021)

    A 2020 paper by Alexey Dosovitskiy and colleagues showing that a pure Transformer applied directly to sequences of image patches — the Vision Transformer, or ViT — matches state-of-the-art convolutional networks on image classification when pre-trained on large amounts of data.

    Research historyComputer visionTransformers & attention

  19. 2020

    Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

    NeurIPS

    A 2020 paper by Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain and Pieter Abbeel that trained a U-Net to reverse a gradual noising process, making diffusion models a practical rival to GANs and paving the way for DALL-E 2, Imagen and Stable Diffusion.

    Deep learningGenerative modelsImage generation

  20. 2020

    Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    NeurIPS

    The GPT-3 paper showed that a language model with 175 billion parameters could perform many tasks from a few examples in its prompt, with no fine-tuning, and that this ability grew with model size.

    Large language modelsFoundation models