Command A: Cohere's Reasoning AI with best performances and minimal costs

PLUS: OpenAI's policy proposals, Sesame's viral AI, & emotion recognition breakthroughs

In today’s agenda:

1️⃣ Cohere launches Command-A: Their most powerful model yet

2️⃣ Sesame releases base model behind viral assistant Maya

3️⃣ R1-Omni introduces advanced emotion recognition through multimodal AI

Plus, some interesting news:

  • OpenAI releases policy proposals for US AI regulation

  • Sakana AI publishes its first scientific breakthrough

MAIN AI UPDATES / 14th Mar 2025

🧠 Cohere Command-A unleashed 🧠
Setting new performance benchmarks

Cohere has released Command-A, its most powerful AI model to date, delivering exceptional performance across reasoning, coding, and languages. The model demonstrates superior understanding of complex instructions and produces more accurate responses than previous versions. With enhanced capabilities for enterprise applications and specialized tasks, Command-A positions Cohere as a serious competitor in the high-performance AI market while maintaining their focus on business solutions.

👩‍💻 Sesame's Maya model revealed 👩‍💻
The tech behind the viral assistant

Sesame has released the base AI model powering its viral virtual assistant Maya. This model has gained attention for its natural conversational abilities and personalized interactions that have resonated with users. The release provides insights into how Sesame achieved Maya's distinctive personality and engagement style, potentially influencing how other companies approach assistant design and user experience in conversational AI.

🎭 R1-Omni emotion recognition 🎭
Understanding human feelings at a deeper level

R1-Omni represents a significant advancement in emotion recognition technology by integrating RLVR into an Omni-multimodal large language model. The system can process multiple data inputs simultaneously—visual, audio, and text—to achieve more nuanced understanding of human emotions. This breakthrough enhances the model's reasoning capabilities, improves recognition accuracy, and strengthens generalization abilities across diverse scenarios, potentially transforming human-AI interactions.

INTERESTING NEWS

📜 OpenAI's US policy blueprint 📜

OpenAI has published comprehensive policy proposals for the US AI Action Plan, addressing safety standards, governance frameworks, and international cooperation. Their recommendations balance innovation enablement with risk management for advanced AI systems. The proposal outlines specific approaches to testing requirements, security protocols, and transparency measures, reflecting OpenAI's vision for responsible AI development while maintaining American technological leadership.

🧪 Sakana AI's scientific breakthrough 🧪

Sakana AI, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has published its first scientific discovery using AI-powered research methods. Their system has identified novel findings through autonomous experimentation and hypothesis testing. This milestone demonstrates how AI can accelerate scientific research by exploring complex data relationships that human researchers might miss, potentially leading to faster breakthroughs across multiple scientific disciplines.

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