The Batch

Oct 23, 2024

6 Posts

Two cheetahs in a savannah, with one saying ‘Move fast and be responsible!’ in a speech bubble.
Oct 23, 2024

How to Get User Feedback to Your AI Products - Fast!: Your ability to prototype AI capabilities fast affects all parts of the product development cycle, starting with getting user feedback.

Startups live or die by their ability to execute at speed. For large companies, too, the speed with which an innovation team is able to iterate has a huge impact on its odds of success.
Two cheetahs in a savannah, with one saying ‘Move fast and be responsible!’ in a speech bubble.
Oct 23, 2024

AI Giants Go Nuclear, A Tech Bromance Turns Turbulent, Mistral Sharpens the Edge, Cheaper Video Generation

The Batch AI News and Insights: Startups live or die by their ability to execute at speed.
Temporal pyramids in rows (left) and position encoding in space-time pyramid shown in the pyramidal flow matching process.
Oct 23, 2024

Faster, Cheaper Video Generation: Pyramidal Flow Matching, a cost-cutting method for training video generators

Researchers devised a way to cut the cost of training video generators. They used it to build a competitive open source text-to-video model and promised to release the training code.
Comparison table of pre-trained models like Mistral, Llama, and Gemma, showcasing performance across evaluation metrics.
Oct 23, 2024

Mistral AI Sharpens the Edge: Mistral AI unveils Ministral 3B and 8B models, outperforming rivals in small-scale AI

Mistral AI launched two models that raise the bar for language models with 8 billion or fewer parameters, small enough to run on many edge devices.
OpenAI logo next to the Microsoft logo with their shadows visible.
Oct 23, 2024

AI Bromance Turns Turbulent: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership faces strain as both seek less dependence

Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.
Nuclear power plant cooling towers emitting steam into the sky.
Oct 23, 2024

AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands

Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.

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