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Bubble's Brain - 2025-12-07

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AI News 2025-12-07

AI Daily Brief

Summary

Grok 4.20 reportedly profited in a U.S. stock trading contest by leveraging real-time social data, while Gemini 3 can generate AR-grade interactive 3D effects.
New data suggests AI usage is shifting toward agentic reasoning, with open-source models rising fast and already taking ~30% of traffic.
NVIDIA open-sourced a new “small model orchestrates big models” paradigm that is cheaper yet performs strongly on benchmarks.

Today’s AI News

  1. Gemini 3 can generate AR-grade interactive 3D particle effects from text: Researchers demonstrated that Gemini 3 can generate real-time interactive 3D particle effects from simple text prompts without any coding. Users can control particle scaling and diffusion via camera-captured gestures, delivering an AR-like experience. The result showcases Gemini Canvas, which lowers the barrier for complex interactive 3D creation through built-in real-time rendering and code-fix assistance. The article contrasts Canvas—aimed at “one-shot delivery” of runnable front-end apps—with developer-oriented AI Studio, which provides ultra-long context and API debugging for enterprise builds.

  2. Grok 4.20 wins a real-money U.S. stock contest by using real-time X data: In the Alpha Arena 1.5 two-week U.S. stock live-trading competition hosted by nof1.ai, xAI’s previously undisclosed Grok 4.20 reportedly was the only top model to turn a profit—growing a $10,000 stake to $12,193 (+12.11%) while GPT-5.1, Gemini 3.0 Pro, and others lost money. The key advantage cited is Grok’s ability to access X’s real-time full data stream, allowing it to capture market sentiment and make timely decisions—for example, trading leveraged positions based on retail discussion momentum.

  3. ToolOrchestra: NVIDIA + HKU propose an 8B “conductor” to orchestrate tools and larger models: Researchers from NVIDIA and the University of Hong Kong introduced ToolOrchestra, a paradigm that fine-tunes an 8B model (Orchestrator-8B) as a “conductor” to intelligently orchestrate multiple tools—such as code interpreters, web search, and stronger models like GPT-5. The system uses reinforcement learning optimized for correctness, cost efficiency, and user preferences, while reducing bias common in multi-agent systems. Experiments show the 8B orchestrator can outperform GPT-5 on complex benchmarks such as HLE with significantly lower compute cost. Code, models, and data are fully open-sourced.

  4. OpenRouter report: 100T-token real-world data shows major 2025 AI trends: A deep report based on OpenRouter’s real-world 100 trillion tokens highlights key trends: coding and roleplay dominate usage, with coding exceeding 50% of total traffic and roleplay accounting for 52% of open-source model traffic. Open-source models are rising fast, reaching ~30% traffic share, with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Qwen contributing heavily. The center of gravity is shifting from text generation to agentic reasoning—reasoning-optimized models now exceed 50% of traffic. Regionally, Asia’s paid usage doubled to 31%, and Chinese became the world’s second-largest AI interaction language. The report also proposes a “glass slipper effect”: retention depends on whether a new model perfectly solves a specific pain point at launch, while data suggests mid-sized models are becoming mainstream.

  5. Alibaba releases Qwen3-TTS with multi-language and multi-voice support: Alibaba introduced the new Qwen3-TTS multilingual, multi-voice speech synthesis model, emphasizing improved naturalness and prosody control. It supports 49 high-quality voices across genders, ages, and character traits, plus 10 languages (including Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean) and 9 Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Sichuanese. On multilingual TTS benchmarks, Qwen3-TTS reportedly achieves lower word error rate (WER) than popular alternatives like MiniMax and ElevenLabs.

  6. Tencent launches Hunyuan 2.0 (Tencent HY2.0) with 256K context and stronger reasoning: Tencent released its in-house foundation model Hunyuan 2.0 (Tencent HY2.0), now available in AI-native apps like Yuanbao and ima and via Tencent Cloud APIs. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supports a 256K context window. Compared with the previous version, HY2.0 significantly improves in math, science, code, and instruction following, performing strongly on benchmarks such as IMO-AnswerBench and SWE-bench. Tencent is also progressively integrating DeepSeek V3.2 into its ecosystem.

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