What I Read This Week…

Alibaba releases model that rivals OpenAI's o1, Ethereum's reliance on Layer-2 solutions has benefited Solana, and Amgen's clinical data shows Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk's dominance in obesity drugs

Watch All-In E205 (No podcast this week) Read our Deep Dive: Understanding Federal Agencies Caught My Eye… Alibaba recently released QwQ, an open-source AI model that competes with OpenAI's o1 in reasoning capabilities. What is QwQ and how does its performance compare with OpenAI's o1? QwQ is an open-source, 32-billion-parameter model with a 32,000-token context window that is strong in mathematical and scientific reasoning. It outperforms o1-preview on mathematical reasoning benchmarks AIME and MATH, and it beats o1-mini on GPQA for scientific reasoning tasks. While it performs worse…

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