Matthias Bastian

1 day ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

xAI has rolled out three new features for its Grok voice assistant: Grok Vision, multilingual audio output, and real-time search in voice mode. According to the company, all three features are now available to iOS users. Android users with a SuperGrok subscription also get access to multilingual audio and real-time search. Grok Vision allows the assistant to provide live commentary on whatever appears on the smartphone screen.

1 day ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

Articles from the Washington Post will now appear in ChatGPT responses under a new content licensing agreement between the two companies. The integration includes coverage of politics, world affairs, business, and technology, with direct source citations provided in answers. "We’re all in on meeting our audiences where they are," said Peter Elkins-Williams, director of global partnerships at The Washington Post.

2 days ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

Summary A new study from Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University examines whether reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) helps large language models reason better—or simply makes them more efficient at repeating known solutions. The research finds that RLVR improves the chance of producing a correct answer on the first try—known as pass@1—but does not unlock new capabilities.

2 days ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

Customers are expressing frustration with Amazon Web Services over constraints in its AI platform Bedrock, according to a report from The Information. Despite AWS investing in Anthropic, the company reportedly struggles to deliver Anthropic’s models reliably through Bedrock. Several users cite arbitrary usage limits and missing features, including prompt caching—functionality that has long been available when accessing Anthropic models directly through the company’s own API.

2 days ago | the-decoder.com | Matthias Bastian

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search recorded approximately 41.3 million monthly users in the European Union over the six-month period ending in March 2025, according to the company’s own data. The figure represents a nearly fourfold increase from the 11.2 million monthly users reported as of October 31, 2024, based on a screenshot of the site archived in January.