Rami's Readings #133 - DeepSeekMath-V2 ⭐
The latest on AI, LLMs, DeepSeekMath-V2, Diffusion Models, Datacenter Cooling, US Options, Jakarta, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #133 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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🤖 AI Reads
DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning
Notes: Excellent and thought-provoking paper from DeepSeek. It echoes much of Yann Lecun’s points. Subscribers, please read everything DeepSeek publishes!
INTELLECT-3: A 100B+ MoE Trained with Large-Scale RL
Notes: Frontier results on a number of benchmarks, but they open sourced much of their training infrastructure. Paper.
MMaDA-Parallel: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation
Notes: More diffusion model papers.
Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos
Notes: Pretty cool paper from South Korea.
AI Agents in Action: Foundations for Evaluation and Governance
Notes: From the World Economic Forum.
Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use
Notes: Not from my group (see disclosure).
💼 Business Reads
Worldwide Markets Roiled by Data-Center Snafu in Chicago Suburb
Notes: I often discuss datacenter energy demands, but innovation in datacenter cooling is also desperately needed.
US Options Market Grapples With ‘Concentration Risk’ in Clearing
Notes: How many of you are trading 0DTE?
Every listed US options trade goes through The Options Clearing Corp., a central counterparty that handles more than 70 million contracts a day during busy periods. The trades are submitted to the OCC by its members — who help trades get to the clearing house and act as guarantors in case their clients go bust.
Jakarta Has Overtaken Tokyo to Become the World’s Largest City
Notes: Any travel recommendations? I haven’t visited.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.