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- Alibaba’s Qwen leads Hugging Face’s open weights LLM leaderboard
- AirPods with camera modules may launch in 2026
- 51M people watched CNN debate live, skewing towards 55+
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1. Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s Llama 3 lead Hugging Face’s new open weights LLM leaderboard
Benchmarks used: MMLU-Pro, GPQA, MuSR, MATH, IFEval, and BBH, as the standard benchmarks like MMLU “became too easy for models.”
June 3: when MMLU-Pro was released.
Google’s Gemma 2 is the leading open model on LMSYS’s leaderboard, where people vote (blindly) on which AI chatbot is best
2. AirPods with camera modules may launch in 2026
Goal is to improve surround sound capabilities, not to take pictures.
IR camera similar to the iPhone Face ID receiver.
Apple is already working on iOS 19, macOS 16, watch OS 12, and visionOS 3.
Apple Intelligence is coming to Vision Pro, but not the HomePod.
The cheaper Vision may have a larger, lower-res screen (2 to 2.1 inch, with a pixel density of 1700 pixels per inch (PPI), vs. 1.42 inch and 3,386 PPI.
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