Dec 03, 2025

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Heatmap illustrates countries' beliefs on AI's potential in solving issues like poverty and climate change.
Dec 03, 2025

Why People Don’t Trust AI and What To Do About It: Recent surveys by Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans distrust AI. The AI community should take this seriously and work to regain public trust.

Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.
Heatmap illustrates countries' beliefs on AI's potential in solving issues like poverty and climate change.
Dec 03, 2025

Meta’s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs’ Virtual Spaces, Baidu’s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

The Batch AI News and Insights: Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.
In a lab, four robots move a metal frame using graph neural network coordination on a platform.
Dec 03, 2025

Coordinating Robot Teams: Google DeepMind’s RoboBallet project blends GNNs with RL to drive 8-armed robots

In factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.
Graph shows Ernie-4.5 outperforming competitors in document understanding and visual reasoning tasks.
Dec 03, 2025

Baidu’s Multimodal Bids: Giant Ernie 5 natively generates multiple media; Ernie-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking tops Vision-Language metrics

Baidu debuted two models: a lightweight, open-weights, vision-language model and a giant, proprietary, multimodal model built to take on U.S. competitors.
GIF showing a 360° walkthrough of a conference room with a wooden table, high-back chairs, wall screens, and ceiling lights.
Dec 03, 2025

Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool

Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.
GIF showing AI object detection tagging penguins on a beach, cars in traffic, and dancing people.
Dec 03, 2025

Open 3D Generation Pipeline: Meta’s SAM 3 image segmentation models can analyze and create bodies and other objects

Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) image-segmentation model has evolved into an open-weights suite for generating 3D objects. SAM 3 segments images, SAM 3D turns the segments into 3D objects, and SAM 3D Body produces 3D objects of any people among the segments. You can experiment with all three.

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