Today's stories explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we approach complex challenges, from engineering solutions to mathematical problems. While some researchers are pushing for bigger AI models with more data, others are discovering that efficiency and strategic thinking - whether through minimalist drafting or carefully curated datasets - might be the key to better results, challenging the 'bigger is better' paradigm that has dominated AI development. Links to all the papers we discussed: DeepSolution: Boosting Complex Engineering Solution Design via Tree-based Exploration and Bi-point Thinking, Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less, Multi-Turn Code Generation Through Single-Step Rewards, How far can we go with ImageNet for Text-to-Image generation?, ViDoRAG: Visual Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Dynamic Iterative Reasoning Agents, SoS1: O1 and R1-Like Reasoning LLMs are Sum-of-Square Solvers