Jun 26, 2024
AI Monopolies, Ancestor Avatars, Benchmarks for Agentic Behavior, Chatbot for Minority Languages
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement.
Jun 19, 2024
Open Model Bonanza, Private Benchmarks for Fairer Tests, More Interactive Music Generation, Diffusion + GAN
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems.
Jun 12, 2024
Apple’s Gen AI Strategy, Stability's Copyright-Clear Audio Generator, International Safety Agreements, LLMs Play Doctor
The Batch AI News and Insights: One reason for machine learning’s success is that our field welcomes a wide range of work.
Jun 5, 2024
The AI PC Arrives, OpenAI Used For Disinformation, U.S. and China Seek AI Agreement, Training Models to Reason
The Batch AI News and Insights: The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations.
May 29, 2024
Heart-Risk Model Saves Lives, Self-Driving on Unruly Roads, Knowledge Workers Embrace AI, Richer Context for RAG
The Batch AI News and Insights: A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.
May 22, 2024
Music Industry Titan Targets AI, End-to-End Multimodality, Millions of Tokens of Context, More Responsive Text-to-Image
The Batch AI News and Insights: A good way to get started in AI is to start with coursework, which gives a systematic way to gain knowledge, and then to work on projects.
May 15, 2024
OpenAI’s Rules for Model Behavior, Better Brain-Controlled Robots, AlphaFold 3 Covers All Biochemistry, AI Oasis in the Desert
The Batch AI News and Insights: In the last couple of days, Google announced a doubling of Gemini Pro 1.5's input context window from 1 million to 2 million tokens, and OpenAI released GPT-4o...
May 8, 2024
OpenAI Licenses News Archives, Generative Coding From Plan to Pull Request, Recognizing Landmines, Streamlined Inference
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I spoke about AI and regulation at the U.S. Capitol at an event that was attended by legislative and business leaders. I’m encouraged by the progress the open source community has made fending off regulations that would have stifled innovation.
May 1, 2024
Apple’s Tiny LLMs, Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores, Predicting Scientific Discoveries
The Batch AI News and Insights: Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data. Pretraining...
Apr 24, 2024
Pop Song Generators, 3D Mesh Generators, Real-World Benchmarks, AI for Manufacturing
The Batch AI News and Insights: Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models.
Apr 17, 2024
AI Agents With Low/No Code, Hallucinations Create Security Holes, Tuning for RAG Performance, GPT Store’s Lax Moderation
The Batch AI News and Insights: Multi-agent collaboration is the last of the four key AI agentic design patterns that I’ve described in recent letters. Given a complex task like writing software, a multi-agent approach would break...
Apr 10, 2024
Autonomous Coding Agents, Instability at Stability AI, Mamba Mania, What Users Do With GenAI
The Batch AI News and Insights: Planning is a key agentic AI design pattern in which we use a large language model (LLM) to autonomously decide on what sequence of steps to execute to accomplish a larger task.
Apr 03, 2024
Microsoft Absorbs Inflection, Nvidia’s New GPUs, Managing AI Bio Risk, More Factual LLMs
The Batch AI News and Insights: Tool use, in which an LLM is given functions it can request to call for gathering information, taking action, or manipulating data, is a key design pattern of AI agentic workflows.
Mar 27, 2024
One Agent For Many Worlds, Cross-Species Cell Embeddings, U.S. Deploys AI Targeting, Robo Football Gets Real
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I described four design patterns for AI agentic workflows that I believe will drive significant progress this year...
Mar 20, 2024
Robots Talk Back, AI Security Risks, Political Deepfakes, Pretrained Models on the Cheap
The Batch AI News and Insights: I think AI agent workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it.
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