Aug 27, 2025

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Cartoon robots with square heads and antennae sit in rows on an assembly line, each smiling while assembling gears, boxes, and tools.
Aug 27, 2025

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

The Batch AI News and Insights: Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.
Cartoon robots with square heads and antennae sit in rows on an assembly line, each smiling while assembling gears, boxes, and tools.
Aug 27, 2025

Agents Running in Parallel Get There Faster: Parallel agents can accelerate AI systems as test-time compute scales up.

Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.
Table comparing DINO, DINOv2, DINOv3, SigLIP 2, and PE on segmentation, depth estimation, tracking, and classification tasks.
Aug 27, 2025

Better Image Processing Through Self-Supervised Learning: Meta’s DINOv3 gets an updated loss term and improved vision performance

DINOv2 showed that a vision transformer pretrained on unlabeled images could produce embeddings that are useful for a wide variety of tasks. Now it has been updated to improve the performance of its embeddings in segmentation and other vision tasks.
Researcher adjusts sensors on a quadruped robot disguised as a Tibetan antelope in a high-altitude reserve.
Aug 27, 2025

Robot Antelope Joins Herd: Chinese scientists disguise modified robot dog as antelope to study herd behavior

Researchers in China disguised a quadruped robot as a Tibetan antelope to help study the animals close-up.
Infographic showing Mistral Large 2’s environmental impact across emissions, water, and material use.
Aug 27, 2025

Mistral Measures LLM Consumption of Energy, Water, and Materials: French AI startup discloses full lifecycle consumption and emissions for Mistral Large 2

The French AI company Mistral measured the environmental impacts of its flagship large language model.
Hand holding a Pixel 10 smartphone using Google’s Magic Cue AI assistant, which suggests a location reply in a text message conversation.
Aug 27, 2025

Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10

Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.

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