The day in AI

Wednesday 15 October 2025

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Launches and products

15 Oct 2025AnthropicClaude Haiku 4.5 Claude Haiku 4.5 matches Sonnet 4 coding at one-third the cost and over twice the speed. It scores 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified at $1/$5.15 Oct 2025Google DeepMindVeo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast Veo 3.1 adds video extension, first-and-last-frame interpolation and multi-image reference control with audio in every mode; API preview plus Flow.15 Oct 2025Google DeepMindCell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale) C2S-Scale is a 27B-parameter Gemma-based single-cell foundation model built with Yale. It flagged a drug combination to make tumors more visible to the immune system.15 Oct 2025KreaKrea Realtime 14B Krea Realtime 14B is a 14-billion-parameter open autoregressive video model for real-time, long-form generation, 10x larger than earlier realtime models.

Research

15 Oct 2025Meta / UT Austin / UCL / Berkeley / Harvard / Periodic LabsThe Art of Scaling RL Compute (ScaleRL) A 400,000-GPU-hour study finds RL performance follows predictable sigmoid compute curves, and publishes ScaleRL, a recipe validated to 100,000 GPU-hours.

People and teams

Ke YangApple → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Left weeks after taking over AKI from Robby Walker; Gurman counted over a dozen senior Apple AI exits that year, many from Foundation Models.