True Positive Weekly #110
The most important artificial intelligence and machine learning news and articles
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Hey, in this issue: The 2025 AI Index Report; on hacking of the Elo leaderboard by LLM providers; making AI-generated code more accurate; DeepSeek's distributed file system; reinforcement learning for strategic tool use; tool for generating high quality Synthetic datasets; how creativity became the reigning value of our time; and more.
[Stanford] The 2025 AI Index Report
[ArXiv] The leaderboard illusion: On hacking of the Elo leaderboard by LLM providers
[MIT] Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
[MIT TR] How creativity became the reigning value of our time
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
[ByteDance] ReTool: Reinforcement learning for strategic tool use in LLMs
[Tool] synthetic-data-kit: Tool for generating high quality synthetic datasets
[Project] VectorVFS: Your filesystem as a vector database
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