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OpenAI Introduces GPT‑4.1 Family With Enhanced Performance and Long-Context Support
OpenAI has released a new family of language models—GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano—available via its API. The models improve on GPT‑4o and GPT‑4.5 across several technical benchmarks and introduce support for up to 1 million tokens of context.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiJEP 505 Delivers Fifth Preview of Java's Structured Concurrency with Key API Refinements
JEP 505, Structured Concurrency, has reached Targeted status in JDK 25. This refined API enhances parallel task management through static factory methods like StructuredTaskScope.open(). It improves cancellation, observability, and subtask lifetime handling, ensuring clearer, safer code. Developers are encouraged to explore and provide feedback on this innovative iteration.
By A N M Bazlur RahmanJava News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hibernate Reactive, Infinispan, JHipster, Gatherers4j
This week's Java roundup for May 5th, 2025 features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 25; new HotSpot-related JEPs, the first release candidate of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; the first developer release of Infinispan 16.0; and the release of JHipster 8.11.0 and Gatherers4j 0.11.0.
By Michael RedlichPodcast: How to Build Effective LLMs When Both Basic Infrastructure and Model Training Data Are Lacking
Olimpiu Pop discusses with Jade Abbott, CTO and co-founder of Lelapa AI, how basic infrastructure scarcities found on the African continent can ignite innovation and help push forward the AI space. Particularly when dealing with never-written languages, you need to be innovative to generate proper data and divide the problem into minor problems that can be solved with fewer intensive resources.
By Jade AbbottDeepSeek Launches Prover-V2 Open-Source LLM for Formal Math Proofs
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-Prover-V2 a new open-source large language model specifically designed for formal theorem proving in Lean 4. The model builds on a recursive theorem proving pipeline powered by the company's DeepSeek-V3 foundation model.
By Vinod Goje
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