16 November 2025
🚀 The Daily AI Digest
The Daily AI briefing for 2025-11-16, We checked out 3 sources and 4 stories for you. Here's what you need to know today.
🔓 Open Source
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A contributor released a BERT‑based multilingual chunking model fine‑tuned on ~11 billion tokens, extending distilbert‑base‑multilingual‑cased for token‑level tasks.
reddit.com
- The model provides better chunking accuracy across low‑resource languages without the cost of large‑scale LLMs.
📦 Products
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Google announced that Gemini will remain free for 18 months despite its access to billions of search queries, aiming to accelerate user adoption.
- The pricing strategy underscores Google's confidence in its data advantage to outpace competing conversational AI services.
📰 Ai Top News
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Google DeepMind released a hurricane‑specific AI model that outperformed conventional forecasters on Hurricane Melissa, accurately predicting rapid intensification and track.
theguardian.com
- The breakthrough demonstrates AI’s potential to improve disaster preparedness and could save lives and property in future storm events.
📰 Tools
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A GitHub project introduced a three‑tier hierarchical index that compressed 60.7 MB of documents into 665 KB, delivering a 93:1 size reduction for large text corpora.
github.com
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The llama‑cpp repository merged support for vision models, expanding the framework’s capabilities to multimodal inference.
📰 Quick Stats
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Google Gemini stays free for 18 months, leveraging billions of search queries.
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DeepMind hurricane model achieved the first AI‑only win over traditional forecasters for Hurricane Melissa.
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Compression tool reduced 60.7 MB of documents to 665 KB, a 93:1 size reduction.
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Multilingual chunking model trained on ~11 billion tokens, boosting low‑resource language performance.
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