Alibaba Cloud released its Qwen2.5-Omni-7B multimodal AI model, designed for cost-effective AI agents and capable of processing various inputs like text, images, audio, and video.
Explores recent trends in LLM research, including multi-modal LLMs, open-source LLMs, domain-specific LLMs, LLM agents, smaller LLMs, and Non-Transformer LLMs. Mentions examples such as OpenAI's Sora, LLM360, BioGPT, StarCoder, and Mamba.