Mar 12, 2025

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Illustration of a programmer at a computer displaying PyTorch code, while a smiling colleague gives a thumbs-up in approval.
Mar 12, 2025

Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
Illustration of a programmer at a computer displaying PyTorch code, while a smiling colleague gives a thumbs-up in approval.
Mar 12, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, Phi-4-multimodal Takes Spoken Input, Training AI May Not Be Fair Use

The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
AI model performance benchmark comparing R1 1776 and DeepSeek-R1 across MMLU, DROP, MATH-500, and AIME 2024 tests.
Mar 12, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1

Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.
Gavel striking a neural network, symbolizing legal decisions impacting AI and machine learning technologies.
Mar 12, 2025

Judge Upholds Copyright in AI Training Case: U.S. court rejects fair use defense in Thomson Reuters AI lawsuit

A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.
Phi-4 Mini multimodal architecture integrating vision, audio, and text with token merging and LoRA-adapted weights for AI processing.
Mar 12, 2025

Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously

Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.
QwQ-32B vs DeepSeek-R1 AI model performance benchmark across AIME24, LiveCodeBench, LiveBench, IFEval, and BFCL datasets.
Mar 12, 2025

Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models

Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.

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