Two Weeks Off AI Notes: Starting Something New Is Hard
Life has been busy and I barely had energy to watch AI updates. I wrote half of last week’s (12.05) notes and never finished, so here comes a catch-up after two weeks away. Last week saw a bunch of new models or reports: DeepSeek, Mistral, QwenVL. I skimmed DeepSeek-3.2’s report and nothing really grabbed me; Mistral feels forced, with the only bragging point being a programming win among open-source models, which still needs community validation....