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TODAY'S AI NEWS: A new AI startup, Reve, just dethroned leading image generation giants! Plus, more news from DeepSeek, Qwen, Google, Alibaba, and more. Here's everything you need to know:

Reve emerged from stealth with a new image-generation model: Reve Image 1.0 —Delivers exceptional prompt accuracy, text, and image quality —#1 in Image Arena, surpassing Imagen 3 and Midjourney v6.1 —Currently free to try with text-based editing

DeepSeek released V3-0324, an updated version of its V3 non-reasoning AI —A 641GB model but capable of running on high-end PCs —Uses MoE, activating only 37B params/token and reducing compute —Upgraded Math and Coding capabilities —Open-source under MIT

The Qwen team of Alibaba open-sourced Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct, a new vision-language model —Features enhanced mathematical reasoning and visual capabilities —Beats Qwen2-VL-72B, Mistral Small 3.1-24B, and GPT-4o-0513 —Apache 2.0 licensed

Alibaba released LHM or Large Animatable Human Reconstruction Model It creates animated 3D human avatars from a single fully-body reference image—in just seconds Accessible under Apache 2.0 license!

ARC Prize Foundation launched ARC-AGI-2 – a set of tasks humans find easy but AI struggles with! The foundation's 2025 competition launches soon with a $700k prize for the first to achieve an 85% score within cost limits. The current best is o3-low's 4%

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