Aug 20, 2025

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Andrew Ng speaks at the August 2025 Buildathon hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI. A packed audience watches the event, and groups of participants collaborate on laptops.
Aug 20, 2025

How Non-Coders Built 5 Software Products in 6½ Hours: At Buildathon on August 16, coders and non-coders alike showed how much AI is changing software development.

On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.
Andrew Ng speaks at the August 2025 Buildathon hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI. A packed audience watches the event, and groups of participants collaborate on laptops.
Aug 20, 2025

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

The Batch AI News and Insights: On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.
Charts showing how much information language models memorize based on model size and training dataset size; one graph uses random data, the other uses real-world text.
Aug 20, 2025

Does Your Model Generalize or Memorize: Researchers find models with more parameters copy more bits from training sets

Benchmarks can measure how well large language models apply what they’ve learned from their training data to new data, but it’s harder to measure the degree to which they simply memorized their training data. New work proposes a way to gauge memorization.
Aerial view of a large, partially constructed data center surrounded by parked vehicles and red soil in Abilene, Texas
Aug 20, 2025

OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project

OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.
Three AI-generated video clips: a man vaulting over a moving car, a gymnast flipping on a plane wing, and a rabbit ice skating in pink boots.
Aug 20, 2025

Mixture of Video Experts: Alibaba’s Wan 2.2 video models adopt a new architecture to sort noisy from less-noisy inputs

The mixture-of-experts approach that has boosted the performance of large language models may do the same for video generation.
Illustration of Nvidia H20 and Huawei Ascend 910 AI chips on wood with a Chinese flag, symbolizing China’s shift from U.S. AI processors to domestic development amid geopolitical tensions.
Aug 20, 2025

China Reconsiders U.S. AI Processors: Nvidia and AMD must reassure China their high-end GPUs don't pose security risk

Nvidia and AMD, having obtained the U.S. government’s permission to resume selling AI processors in China, received a cool welcome there.

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