Apr 23, 2025

6 Posts

Code snippet showing ‘Keep Building!’ printed in multiple programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, and C++.
Apr 23, 2025

How to Become a Multilingual Coder: AI makes it easy to code in any programming language — especially if you know just one.

Even though I’m a much better Python than JavaScript developer, with AI assistance, I’ve been writing a lot of JavaScript code recently.
Code snippet showing ‘Keep Building!’ printed in multiple programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript, and C++.
Apr 23, 2025

OpenAI’s Five New Models, Hugging Face’s Open Robot, U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips, Text-Only LLMs Go Multimodal

The Batch AI News and Insights: Even though I’m a much better Python than JavaScript developer, with AI assistance, I’ve been writing a lot of JavaScript code recently.
AI diagram showing generator and scorer loop to produce final output based on test image of a cat.
Apr 23, 2025

Text-Only LLM Goes Multimodal: LLMs learn to caption images, video, and audio without further training

Large language models excel at processing text but can’t interpret images, video, or audio directly without further training on those media types. Researchers devised a way to overcome this limitation.
NVIDIA AI computing hardware with multiple GPUs on a black reflective surface.
Apr 23, 2025

U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
Person interacting with a humanoid robot using virtual reality headset and controllers.
Apr 23, 2025

Hugging Face Rolls Out Open Robot: Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics, launches Reachy 2 robot for open-source research

Hugging Face has made a name by providing open AI models. Now it’s providing an open robot.
Comparison chart of GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini with other models on coding, math, tool use, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks.
Apr 23, 2025

OpenAI Launches Cost-Effective Alternatives: OpenAI replaces GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1 Family, plus o3 and o4-mini, new models focused on reasoning and coding

OpenAI refreshed its roster of models and scheduled the largest, most costly one for removal.

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