LLM Daily: November 20, 2025
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November 20, 2025
HIGHLIGHTS
• Function Health has secured $298 million in Series B funding at a $2.5 billion valuation, building a platform that consolidates health data from electronic records, blood tests, and wearables to make health information more actionable for users.
• Meta has released SAM 3 (Segment Anything Model 3), a unified computer vision model that can detect, segment, and track objects in both images and videos based on concept prompts, introducing Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS) technology.
• Google's open-source Gemini CLI project has gained over 83,500 GitHub stars, bringing the power of Gemini models directly to the terminal with interactive shell capabilities and enhanced "thinking mode" functionality.
• Researchers from Meta AI have achieved breakthrough performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) by reframing it as a visual recognition problem rather than a reasoning challenge, reaching 82.8% test accuracy with their V-ARC framework.
BUSINESS
Funding & Investment
Function Health Raises $298M Series B at $2.5B Valuation (2025-11-19)
Health data platform Function Health has secured $298 million in Series B funding, reaching a $2.5 billion valuation. The company aims to consolidate health data from various sources—including electronic health records, blood tests, and wearable devices—to make it more actionable for users. TechCrunch
Lambda Raises $1.5B Following Microsoft Deal (2025-11-18)
AI data center provider Lambda has raised an impressive $1.5 billion in funding, exceeding expectations according to deal-watchers. This substantial raise follows a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft, positioning Lambda strongly in the AI infrastructure space. TechCrunch
M&A and Partnerships
Warner Music Settles with Udio, Signs AI Music Platform Deal (2025-11-19)
Warner Music Group has resolved its copyright lawsuit with AI music platform Udio and entered into a new partnership. The agreement will launch a subscription service enabling users to create remixes and covers using the voices of participating artists and songwriters. This represents a significant step in addressing intellectual property concerns in AI-generated music. TechCrunch
Company Updates
Nvidia Reports Record $57B Revenue (2025-11-19)
Nvidia has announced record-breaking revenue of $57 billion, with its data center business driving the exceptional results. The company's upbeat forecast has quieted talk of an AI bubble, reinforcing confidence in continued AI infrastructure investment. TechCrunch
Google Launches Gemini 3 with New Coding App (2025-11-18)
Google has released Gemini 3, its latest foundation model, featuring record benchmark scores and a new coding application. The model is immediately available through the Gemini app and Google's AI search interface, marking a significant advancement in Google's AI capabilities. TechCrunch
Stack Overflow Pivots to AI Data Provider (2025-11-18)
Stack Overflow is transforming its platform from a classic problem-solving forum to an AI data provider. The company aims to translate human expertise into AI-accessible formats, repositioning itself in the AI ecosystem. TechCrunch
Quora's Poe Adds Group Chat Functionality (2025-11-18)
Quora's AI platform Poe has introduced group chat support, allowing up to 200 people to engage in conversations across various AI models and bots. This enhancement expands the platform's collaborative capabilities. TechCrunch
Market Analysis
Hugging Face CEO: "We're in an LLM Bubble, Not an AI Bubble" (2025-11-18)
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue has stated that the industry is experiencing an "LLM bubble" rather than a broader AI bubble. He suggests that while large language models are receiving the majority of attention, smaller specialized models will prove more practical for many use cases going forward. TechCrunch
VC Jennifer Neundorfer on Standing Out in Crowded AI Market (2025-11-19)
January Ventures' Jennifer Neundorfer shared insights on how founders can differentiate themselves in the increasingly saturated AI market. She noted that her firm is exploring ways to leverage AI for internal efficiencies, including using it to enhance due diligence processes for market and competitive analysis. TechCrunch
PRODUCTS
Meta Releases SAM 3 (Segment Anything Model 3)
Company: Meta (established player)
Released: 2025-11-19
Source: Reddit announcement
Meta has released Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3), a unified model that significantly advances computer vision capabilities. SAM 3 can detect, segment, and track objects in both images and videos based on concept prompts - which can be short noun phrases (like "yellow school bus"), image examples, or combinations. The model introduces Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS), which returns segmentation masks and unique identities for all matching objects. SAM 3 represents a substantial advancement in object detection and tracking technology, built using a scalable data engine developed specifically for this purpose.
MiniMax Announces Multiple AI Products
Company: MiniMax (startup)
Released: Multiple recent releases (2025-11)
Source: Reddit AMA
MiniMax, an emerging AI lab, has recently launched several AI models and products as revealed in their Reddit AMA:
- MiniMax-M2: Their latest large language model
- Hailuo 2.3: An updated version of their language model lineup
- MiniMax Speech 2.6: Advanced speech recognition and processing capabilities
- MiniMax Music 2.0: AI music generation technology
The company held an "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit where the head of engineering discussed these products and their capabilities. Users particularly engaged with questions about performance comparisons to other frameworks like llama.cpp and technical implementation details around AMD ROCm support.
TECHNOLOGY
Open Source Projects
google-gemini/gemini-cli
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. With over 83,500 GitHub stars, this TypeScript project provides a command-line interface for interacting with Google's Gemini models, featuring interactive shell capabilities and recent updates to "thinking mode" functionality.
firecrawl/firecrawl
A powerful web data API for AI that converts entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. This TypeScript project (68,000+ stars) helps solve the critical RAG challenge of high-quality web data extraction, recently adding improved concurrency handling for its API.
pathwaycom/llm-app
Ready-to-run cloud templates for RAG, AI pipelines, and enterprise search with live data. This Docker-friendly project (47,000+ stars) maintains synchronization with various data sources including Sharepoint, Google Drive, S3, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and real-time data APIs.
Models & Datasets
WeiboAI/VibeThinker-1.5B
A 1.5B parameter model fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B, optimized for math, code, and conversational applications. With 8,700+ downloads and 364 likes, this model demonstrates strong capabilities in reasoning-intensive tasks as described in its associated paper (arxiv:2511.06221).
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
A conversational model with over 158,000 downloads and 1,300+ likes. This model, part of the Kimi K2 series, includes custom code capabilities and "thinking" functionality, making it particularly effective for complex reasoning chains.
maya-research/maya1
A versatile model with 33,000+ downloads and 689 likes that combines text generation with text-to-speech capabilities. Based on the LLaMA architecture, it's released under the Apache 2.0 license and is compatible with both AutoTrain and text-generation inference endpoints.
builddotai/Egocentric-10K
A dataset with over 43,000 downloads and 247 likes, focused on egocentric data collection. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, this resource was last updated on November 11, 2025, providing valuable training data for first-person perspective AI models.
PleIAs/SYNTH
A multilingual dataset (28,000+ downloads) supporting text generation, zero-shot classification, and summarization across English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Dutch, and Latin. This Parquet-formatted dataset covers diverse domains including Wikipedia, art, math, and writing.
Developer Tools & Spaces
HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook
A highly popular Docker-based space (2,300+ likes) providing a comprehensive playbook for efficient model training. This research-oriented template includes data visualization tools and scientific paper formatting capabilities.
tori29umai/Qwen-Image-2509-MultipleAngles
A Gradio-powered interface with 460 likes that leverages Qwen's image generation capabilities to create consistent images from multiple angles. This tool helps creators maintain visual coherence across different perspectives of the same subject.
eigen-ai-labs/eigen-banana-qwen-image-edit
A specialized LoRA adapter (164 likes) for Qwen-Image-Edit that enhances image editing capabilities. Based on research outlined in arxiv:2510.19808, this model provides advanced diffusion-based image synthesis and manipulation features.
Wan-AI/Wan2.2-Animate
An exceptionally popular animation space (2,476 likes) built on Gradio that allows users to create animated content with the Wan2.2 model. This tool simplifies the process of generating dynamic visual content from static inputs.
RESEARCH
Paper of the Day
ARC Is a Vision Problem! (2025-11-18)
Authors: Keya Hu, Ali Cy, Linlu Qiu, Xiaoman Delores Ding, Runqian Wang, Yeyin Eva Zhu, Jacob Andreas, Kaiming He
Institution: Meta AI
This paper is significant because it reframes the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC), traditionally considered a reasoning challenge, as a visual recognition problem. The authors achieve breakthrough performance by applying vision-first approaches, demonstrating that visual pattern recognition may be the key to solving abstract reasoning tasks that have stumped previous language-based approaches.
The researchers introduce V-ARC, a framework that treats ARC puzzles as pure visual patterns, achieving an impressive 86.3% validation accuracy and 82.8% test accuracy—far exceeding previous state-of-the-art methods. Their findings suggest that the fundamental abstraction and reasoning capabilities required for ARC may be better approached through vision models than symbolic reasoning, with important implications for how we conceptualize and address complex AI reasoning challenges.
Notable Research
People readily follow personal advice from AI but it does not improve their well-being (2025-11-19)
Authors: Lennart Luettgau, Vanessa Cheung, Magda Dubois, et al.
In a large-scale randomized controlled trial with 2,302 UK participants, researchers found that 75% of users followed personal advice from GPT-4o after just a 20-minute conversation, but this advice did not lead to measurable improvements in well-being or goal progress compared to a control group, raising important questions about the real-world impact of LLM-based personal advice.
WiCo-PG: Wireless Channel Foundation Model for Pathloss Map Generation via Synesthesia of Machines (2025-11-19)
Authors: Mingran Sun, Lu Bai, Ziwei Huang, et al.
The first wireless channel foundation model demonstrates how LLM techniques can revolutionize wireless communication, enabling accurate pathloss map generation in drone-to-ground scenarios through multimodal sensing and cross-modal generation approaches.
Breaking Expert Knowledge Limits: Self-Pruning for Large Language Models (2025-11-19)
Authors: Haidong Kang, Lihong Lin, Enneng Yang, et al.
This paper introduces a novel self-pruning framework that eliminates the need for expert knowledge in model compression by having LLMs generate their own pruning algorithms, addressing the "outlier value issue" that causes performance degradation at high pruning ratios.
AVATAAR: Agentic Video Answering via Temporal Adaptive Alignment and Reasoning (2025-11-19)
Authors: Urjitkumar Patel, Fang-Chun Yeh, Chinmay Gondhalekar
The researchers present a modular, interpretable framework that significantly improves video question answering by combining global and local video context analysis with precise temporal alignment and reasoning, outperforming existing methods on benchmark datasets.
Cost-Aware Prediction (CAP): An LLM-Enhanced Machine Learning Pipeline for Heart Failure Mortality Prediction (2025-11-19)
Authors: Yinan Yu, Falk Dippel, Christina E. Lundberg, et al.
This research demonstrates how LLM agents can enhance clinical decision-making by combining machine learning mortality predictions with cost-benefit analysis, improving the interpretability and practical utility of AI in healthcare settings.
LOOKING AHEAD
As we approach 2026, multimodal reasoning capabilities are becoming the new frontier in AI development. The recent integration of real-time sensor data with LLMs is enabling systems that can not only see and hear but truly understand physical environments with unprecedented contextual awareness. We expect Q1 2026 will bring the first wave of commercial applications leveraging these advances in industrial automation and healthcare diagnostics.
Meanwhile, the regulatory landscape continues to evolve rapidly. With the International AI Governance Framework set for implementation in Q2 2026, companies are scrambling to align their AI systems with the new global standards. Those investing in explainable AI architectures now will likely gain significant competitive advantages when these regulations take effect.