Aug 06, 2025

6 Posts

A silhouette of a conductor leads a performance in front of a glowing data center, as an audience watches from a theater. Red curtains frame the scene, symbolizing AI model orchestration.
Aug 06, 2025

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).
A silhouette of a conductor leads a performance in front of a glowing data center, as an audience watches from a theater. Red curtains frame the scene, symbolizing AI model orchestration.
Aug 06, 2025

Why Meta Is Paying AI Engineers $100M: Meta’s massive compensation packages make sense considering the cost and potential return of delivering cutting-edge AI.

Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).
A fully autonomous surgical robot clips and cuts a bile duct in an ex-vivo gallbladder removal experiment using the da Vinci system, guided by AI.
Aug 06, 2025

Robot Surgeon Cuts and Clips: Doctors at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Optosurgical operate on animal organs without human intervention

An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.
Benchmark comparison of GLM-4.5 models against top AI systems in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, showing GLM-4.5’s strong performance in math, tool use, and software engineering.
Aug 06, 2025

GLM-4.5, an Open, Agentic Contender: Zhipu AI (Z.ai) releases open-weights GLM-4.5 models that perform comparably to the latest from Claude and DeepSeek

The race is on to develop large language models that can drive agentic interactions. Following the one-two punch of Moonshot’s Kimi K2 and Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B update, China’s Z.ai aims to one-up the competition.
Electric substation representing the energy use and carbon emissions linked to running large AI language models.
Aug 06, 2025

Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint

In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.
Table comparing accuracy and Elo scores of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models across benchmarks and tool use.
Aug 06, 2025

The Re-Opening of OpenAI: GPT-OSS, OpenAI’s first open-weights models since GPT-2, arrives in 120 billion and 20 billion parameter versions

The “open” is back in play at OpenAI.

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