Graph showing global warming with and without aerosol injection.
Oct 16, 2024

Bogus Apps, AI Boomtown, Better Embeddings, 2024 Highlights

The Batch AI News and Insights: It’s high time to take geoengineering more seriously as a potential tool to mitigate climate change.
How Meta’s Movie Gen Does It, AI’s Criminal Underground, Court Says LAION is Legal, OpenAI’s New Voice API
Oct 09, 2024

How Meta’s Movie Gen Does It, AI’s Criminal Underground, Court Says LAION is Legal, OpenAI’s New Voice API

The Batch AI News and Insights: Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!
California Senate Bill 1047 with a large veto stamp on top of the document.
Oct 02, 2024

Llama Goes Multimodal, Pros Embrace Generative Video, Military AI Guidelines, LLMs That Read Spreadsheets

The Batch AI News and Insights: We won! California’s anti-innovation bill SB 1047 was vetoed by Governor Newsom over the weekend.
Hollywood Embraces Video Gen, New Restrictions on Deepfakes, More Open Source Models, Robot Server
Sep 25, 2024

Hollywood Embraces Video Gen, New Restrictions on Deepfakes, More Open Source Models, Robot Server

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week I spoke at Coursera Connect, the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where a major topic was AI and education.
Diagram of the data engineering cycle from generation to ingestion and transformation to analytics and machine learning.
Sep 18, 2024

Models Built for Reasoning, High Gear for Llama 3.1, Brains for Warehouse Robots, Stopping LLMs From Plagiarizing

The Batch AI News and Insights: Years ago, when I was working at a large tech company, I was responsible for the data warehouse.
Comic where a robot is hiding in a closet during a game of hide-and-seek.
Sep 11, 2024

Nations Sign Binding AI Treaty, Waymo Reveals Safety Record, 2D to 3D Goes Mainstream, Balancing Web Data Distributions

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.
NG YEOL
Sep 04, 2024

Hallucination Index, AI-Powered Policing Goes National, Explainable LLMs, Faster Processing for Longer Inputs

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.
AI Restores ALS Patient’s Voice, AI Lobby Grows, Agentic Coding Advances, Massively Multimodal Model
Aug 28, 2024

AI Restores ALS Patient’s Voice, AI Lobby Grows, Agentic Coding Advances, Massively Multimodal Model

The Batch AI News and Insights: After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens).
AI Agents Generate Novel Research, Google Imagen 3 Raises the Bar, Alibaba’s Open Models for Specialized Tasks, Scaling Laws for Data Quality
Aug 21, 2024

AI Agents Generate Novel Research, Google Imagen 3 Raises the Bar, Alibaba’s Open Models for Specialized Tasks, Scaling Laws for Data Quality

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.
LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic
Aug 14, 2024

LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic

The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails
Aug 07, 2024

Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails

The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Llama 3.1 is State-of-the-Art and Open, Web Data Goes Dark, OpenAI Takes on Google and Bing, Synthetic Data Improves
Jul 31, 2024

Llama 3.1 is State-of-the-Art and Open, Web Data Goes Dark, OpenAI Takes on Google and Bing, Synthetic Data Improves

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user — lets you go faster.
OpenAI Shrinks GPT-4o, Meta Withholds Models From Europe, Investors Hoard GPUs, Synthetic Talking Heads Get Expressive
Jul 24, 2024

OpenAI Shrinks GPT-4o, Meta Withholds Models From Europe, Investors Hoard GPUs, Synthetic Talking Heads Get Expressive

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Hallucination Detector, Battle of the Image Generators, How Open Are Open Models?, Copyright Claim Fails Against GitHub
Jul 17, 2024

Hallucination Detector, Battle of the Image Generators, How Open Are Open Models?, Copyright Claim Fails Against GitHub

The Batch AI News and Insights: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
AI’s Cloudy Path to Zero Emissions, Amazon’s Agent Builders, Claude’s UI Advance, Training On Consumer GPUs
Jul 10, 2024

AI’s Cloudy Path to Zero Emissions, Amazon’s Agent Builders, Claude’s UI Advance, Training On Consumer GPUs

The Batch AI News and Insights: I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.

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