Feb 12, 2025

6 Posts

“Responsible AI” written on a wall, with “Safety” crossed out in blue paint.

Feb 12, 2025

The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”

At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

Feb 12, 2025

OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search

The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

Diagram showing GPT-4o with and without search, highlighting task execution success and failure.

Feb 12, 2025

Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.

AI model leaderboard comparing performance across tasks like math, vision, and document analysis.

Feb 12, 2025

Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models

While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.

Feb 12, 2025

Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications

Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.

ChatGPT interface drafting a research report on retail trends, including AI, e-commerce, and inflation.

Feb 12, 2025

Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources

OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.

Feb 12, 2025

The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”

OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search

Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models

Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications

Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources

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