📋 Quick Takeaways

• OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 with eight customizable personalities, adaptive reasoning, and warmer conversational tone
• Google unveils Nested Learning paradigm at NeurIPS 2025, solving catastrophic forgetting in AI systems
• DeepMind + Terence Tao discover new math theorem using AlphaEvolve and Gemini Deep Think for finite field Kakeya conjecture
• Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 surpasses GPT and Gemini on multimodal benchmarks with only 3B active parameters
• Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel raises $100M at $740M valuation for AI-native web search APIs
• MLPerf Training v5.1 shows 2X+ performance gains across generative AI workloads from 20 organizations
• Major AI breakthrough raises existential questions as reported by Washington Post investigation

🤖 Foundation Model Releases

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.1: Enhanced Intelligence with Personality Customization

Major Model Upgrade: OpenAI released GPT-5.1 on November 11, 2025, featuring GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking as significant upgrades to the GPT-5 generation, addressing user feedback about conversational quality and intelligence.