Dec 04, 2024

6 Posts

AI ecosystem layers: applications, orchestration, foundational models, cloud, and semiconductors.
Dec 04, 2024

The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.

There’s a lingering misconception that building with generative AI is expensive.
AI ecosystem layers: applications, orchestration, foundational models, cloud, and semiconductors.
Dec 04, 2024

AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem.
Table comparing HarmBench and AdvBench ASR performance across models and benchmarks.
Dec 04, 2024

Breaking Jailbreaks: New E-DPO method strengthens defenses against jailbreak prompts

Jailbreak prompts can prod a large language model (LLM) to overstep built-in boundaries, leading it to do things like respond to queries it was trained to refuse to answer. Researchers devised a way to further boost the probability that LLMs will respond in ways that respect such limits.
Pile of discarded green circuit boards from electronic devices.
Dec 04, 2024

Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem

Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Table comparing model performance on Mathvista, MMMU, ChartQA, DocVQA, and other tasks.
Dec 04, 2024

Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models

Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.
Flow diagram of an application using LLMs to process prompts and tools for responses.
Dec 04, 2024

Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money

One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.

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