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Two people reading in bed, one with a book on library functions and a head labeled with AI layers.

Nov 20, 2024

Next-Gen Models Show Limited Gains, Real-Time Video Generation, China AI Chips Blocked, Transformer Training Streamlined

The Batch AI News and Insights: A small number of people are posting text online that’s intended for direct consumption not by humans, but by LLMs (large language models).

Llama 3.1 is State-of-the-Art and Open, Web Data Goes Dark, OpenAI Takes on Google and Bing, Synthetic Data Improves

OpenAI Shrinks GPT-4o, Meta Withholds Models From Europe, Investors Hoard GPUs, Synthetic Talking Heads Get Expressive

Agentic Design Patterns Part 1: Four AI agent strategies that improve GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 performance

Man with tools says, “I optimized for tool use!” Woman at computer replies, “Should’ve optimized for computer use!”

Nov 13, 2024

Llama On the Battlefield, Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead, Open Agentic Platform, Voter Support Chatbot

The Batch AI News and Insights: Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.

Robot using a megaphone to amplify its message, with smaller robots spreading out from the megaphone.

Nov 06, 2024

AI Controls Desktops, Agents Train Algorithms, Does Anyone Comply With the EU’s AI Act?, Robots on the Loading Dock

The Batch AI News and Insights: Trump and the Republican party chalked up huge wins this week. Did manipulation of social media by generative AI play any role in this election?

Man pulls lever to electrify a robot maid holding cleaning tools, cartoon-style.

Oct 30, 2024

Trick or treat! AI Devours Energy, Innovation Can’t Win, Models Collapse, Benchmark Tests Are Meaningless, No Work for Coders

The Batch AI News and Insights: Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.

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.

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Oct 16, 2024

Bogus Apps, AI Boomtown, Better Embeddings, 2024 Highlights

The Batch AI News and Insights: It’s high time to take geoengineering more seriously as a potential tool to mitigate climate change.

Oct 09, 2024

How Meta’s Movie Gen Does It, AI’s Criminal Underground, Court Says LAION is Legal, OpenAI’s New Voice API

The Batch AI News and Insights: Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!

California Senate Bill 1047 with a large veto stamp on top of the document.

Oct 02, 2024

Llama Goes Multimodal, Pros Embrace Generative Video, Military AI Guidelines, LLMs That Read Spreadsheets

The Batch AI News and Insights: We won! California’s anti-innovation bill SB 1047 was vetoed by Governor Newsom over the weekend.

Sep 25, 2024

Hollywood Embraces Video Gen, New Restrictions on Deepfakes, More Open Source Models, Robot Server

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week I spoke at Coursera Connect, the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where a major topic was AI and education.

Diagram of the data engineering cycle from generation to ingestion and transformation to analytics and machine learning.

Sep 18, 2024

Models Built for Reasoning, High Gear for Llama 3.1, Brains for Warehouse Robots, Stopping LLMs From Plagiarizing

The Batch AI News and Insights: Years ago, when I was working at a large tech company, I was responsible for the data warehouse.

Comic where a robot is hiding in a closet during a game of hide-and-seek.

Sep 11, 2024

Nations Sign Binding AI Treaty, Waymo Reveals Safety Record, 2D to 3D Goes Mainstream, Balancing Web Data Distributions

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.

Sep 04, 2024

Hallucination Index, AI-Powered Policing Goes National, Explainable LLMs, Faster Processing for Longer Inputs

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.

Aug 28, 2024

AI Restores ALS Patient’s Voice, AI Lobby Grows, Agentic Coding Advances, Massively Multimodal Model

The Batch AI News and Insights: After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens).

Aug 21, 2024

AI Agents Generate Novel Research, Google Imagen 3 Raises the Bar, Alibaba’s Open Models for Specialized Tasks, Scaling Laws for Data Quality

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.

Aug 14, 2024

LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic

The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.

Aug 07, 2024

Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails

The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.