Missed a few days of AI news? Here’s what happened in this week’s Data Points 🧵
🔹Google is back at the frontier. Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra at 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at about 60% of the cost per task.
🔹Europe closes the gap. Mistral Large 4, a 1T-parameter model with open weights coming late October, is now the most intelligent model built outside the US and China.
🔹Reflection AI’s open-weight Beam claims 3–4x less compute to reason than comparable open models. 🔹OpenAI published a batch of new math results from an unreleased model, with proofs formalized in Lean.
🔹Microsoft’s MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming ranks #1 of 38 for streaming speech-to-text accuracy.
🔹Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 runs multimodal search on a phone; Cohere’s Embed 5 targets enterprise RAG.
🔹Meta’s Muse agent and your friends’ data, OpenAI’s opt-in text watermarks, arXiv’s new submission caps, and which AI subscriptions give the most value per dollar.
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