Apr 09, 2025

6 Posts

Black toddler sneakers with white soles on wooden floor, featuring Velcro strap and soft inner lining for comfort.

Apr 09, 2025

The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.

I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.

Apr 09, 2025

Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data

The Batch AI News and Insights: I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.

TabPFN neural network diagram showing synthetic training, prediction on real-world tabular data, and attention layers.

Apr 09, 2025

Better Than Trees for Tabular Data: Transformers can outperform decision trees at predicting unlabeled spreadsheet cells

If you have a collection of variables that represent, say, a cancer patient and you want to classify the patient’s illness as likely cancer or not, algorithms based on decision trees, such as gradient-boosted trees, typically perform better than neural networks.

Architecture of Qwen2.5-Omni showing multimodal processing with vision and audio encoders, thinker, talker, and decoder.

Apr 09, 2025

Better Multimodal Performance With Open Weights: Qwen2.5-Omni 7B raises the bar for small multimodal models

Alibaba’s latest open-weights system raises the bar for multimodal tasks in a relatively small model.

Llama 4 Behemoth benchmark chart comparing coding, reasoning, and multilingual scores with Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4.5.

Apr 09, 2025

Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors

Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.

Diagram comparing original transformer model with a replacement model using token-level attention and neuron-level outputs.

Apr 09, 2025

Ordinary LLMs Implicitly Take Reasoning Steps: Anthropic experiment finds Claude shows signs of unprompted reasoning

Even without explicit training in reasoning, large language models “think” in ways that may be more deliberate than previously understood.

Apr 09, 2025

The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.

Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data

Better Than Trees for Tabular Data: Transformers can outperform decision trees at predicting unlabeled spreadsheet cells

Better Multimodal Performance With Open Weights: Qwen2.5-Omni 7B raises the bar for small multimodal models

Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors

Ordinary LLMs Implicitly Take Reasoning Steps: Anthropic experiment finds Claude shows signs of unprompted reasoning

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