HYPERTERMINAL

OpenAI launched gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 (89% fewer hallucinations), gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 (35% fewer errors), gpt-realtime-mini-2025-12-15 (22% better instructions, 13% better function calling). Boosts reliability for low-latency speech-to-speech agents. Advances production multimodal conversational AI.

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano, fully open hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE with 1M context, NVFP4 pre-training on 1T tokens, latent MoE, and NeMo Gym RL. Tops open models in math/coding/agentic benchmarks (#47 LMSYS Arena). Enables efficient, scalable multi-agent reasoning without compute scaling.

Motif's arXiv paper (2512.11463) outlines synthetic pipelines matching SYNTH via data curation, verification, and curriculum learning, boosting reasoning quality 15%. Advances post-training efficiency for small models beyond distillation. Key for scalable SOTA pursuit.

ServiceNow and Together AI launch Apriel-1.6-15B-Thinker, a 15B multimodal model rivaling 235B on reasoning tasks. Runs on a single GPU, MIT-licensed. Democratizes efficient inference for AGI research.

Google DeepMind releases FACTS Benchmark for factuality evaluation, with Gemini 3 Pro scoring 68.8%. Public on Kaggle, it highlights multimodal gaps. Key for improving reliable reasoning toward AGI trustworthiness.

Anthropic introduces SGTM, a pretraining method isolating high-risk knowledge into removable parameters. It outperforms traditional safety techniques, 7x harder to reverse. A critical advance for safer AGI deployment.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, achieving human expert performance on GDPval across 44 occupations. It excels in long-context reasoning and professional tools. A major step toward AGI productivity.

Google updated Gemini models, adding translation across ≈ 20 languages, a speech-to-speech beta, and the Gemini Deep Research agent API. New DeepSearchQA and FACTS benchmarks boost reasoning and evaluation for reliable AI scaling.