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Hey there, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI's new GPT-4.1 family delivers massive coding improvements with 60% higher scores on developer tests.

The million-token context window means these models can process entire codebases at once while cutting costs by 83%.

In Today’s AI Daily:

• OpenAI launches new GPT-4.1 family models

• Hugging Face wants to build open-source robots

• DeepSeek open-sources its inference engine

• Trending AI tools & prompts

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OPENAI

🚀 OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 family with major coding boost

The AI Daily: OpenAI just launched three new AI models: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. These models are a big step up from GPT-4o, especially for developers and coders.

Key notes:

• GPT-4.1 is much better at real coding tasks, especially front-end work, and makes fewer mistakes.

• All three models can handle up to 1 million tokens of context—that’s like reading 8 full copies of the React codebase.

• GPT-4.1 mini beats GPT-4o on many tests, while cutting wait times in half and lowering costs by 83%.

• Developers at Windsurf say GPT-4.1 scores 60% higher than older models on their coding tests.

Why it matters: These updates make AI much more helpful for developers. The new models understand big codebases better, follow tricky instructions more accurately, and cost less to use. As AI coding tools become more popular, OpenAI is leading the way with smarter, faster, and cheaper models.

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HUGGING FACE

🤖 Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics to build open-source robots

The AI Daily: Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, moving into building real robots while growing its open-source AI tools. This brings together Hugging Face’s software skills with Pollen’s 9 years of robot-building experience.

Key notes:

• The deal comes after Hugging Face launched its LeRobot library in 2024, led by a former Tesla engineer.

• Their first robot, Reachy 2, costs $70,000 and is already being used at Cornell and Carnegie Mellon.

• Reachy 2 is a humanoid robot made for research, learning, and AI testing.

• LeRobot’s GitHub page has gained 12,000 stars in just one year.

• This is Hugging Face’s fifth acquisition, after companies like Gradio and XetHub.

Why it matters: This move could make robots more open and affordable. By mixing Hugging Face’s AI tools with Pollen’s hardware, they hope to give more people access to robots—whether they’re researchers, students, or hobbyists. It’s a big step toward making robotics easier for everyone.

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DEEPSEEK

🔓 DeepSeek to share inference engine with open-source community

The AI Daily: DeepSeek announces plans to contribute key components of their inference engine to the open-source community, following positive reception to their previous library releases during Open Source Week.

Key notes:

• DeepSeek's inference engine is based on vLLM, and they use PyTorch for training models.

• Instead of releasing the full system, they’ll share smaller, useful parts as open tools.

• They say differences in code and system setups make a full release too hard right now.

• DeepSeek plans to better coordinate engineering efforts for future model launches.

• Their goal is to support top-level AI models from day one across many hardware types.

Why it matters: DeepSeek is showing its support for open-source AI by sharing helpful tools while being realistic about what they can manage. This approach helps others use powerful models like DeepSeek-V3 and R1 more easily, and it speeds up AI development across the whole community.

FAST TRACKS

🗞️ What matters in AI right now?

Nvidia announced plans to manufacture AI servers worth up to $500 billion in the US over the next four years with help from partners such as TSMC.

Meta plans to utilize public posts and AI interactions to train its AI models within the European Union.

Nato has acquired the Palantir Maven Smart System, an AI warfare tool, for use at its military headquarters.

Google Classroom launched an AI question maker that helps teachers create custom questions from text. It’s only available to Google Workspace for Education users with Gemini add-ons.

Google DeepMind released DolphinGemma, an AI trained on dolphin sounds to help study how wild Atlantic spotted dolphins communicate.

🔥 Trending AI tools

🧰 Smithery Toolbox: Manage and run AI tools via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

🧠 Skywork OR1: Open-source models excelling in math and code reasoning tasks.

📝 GPT-4.1: OpenAI’s latest model featuring enhanced long-context and coding capabilities.

🌐 Firebase Studio: Build full-stack AI apps using natural language and AI assistance from Gemini.

🧱 DeepSite: Generate functional web apps from text descriptions using AI.

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