Dec 17, 2025

6 Posts

A robot examines a graph showing a rising trend in "amazingness" from 2015 to 2025
Dec 17, 2025

Large Language Models Are General — But Not _That_ General: Current progress in AI is piecemeal and laborious. Unforeseen breakthroughs may drive future progress, but the trend of improvement is incremental.

As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
A robot examines a graph showing a rising trend in "amazingness"; from 2015 to 2025
Dec 17, 2025

OpenAI’s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway’s Interactive Worlds, Disney’s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
Diagram shows LLM training with encoders for images, audio, video; inference with galaxies, satellites.
Dec 17, 2025

Adapting LLMs to Any Sort of Data: SEMI (Sample-Efficient Modality Integration) tackles new domains with few-shot examples

Enabling a pretrained large language model to process a data type other than text (say, images), possibly in a specialized domain (say, radiology), typically requires thousands to millions of examples that pair the other data (perhaps x-rays) with text.
A table compares GPT-5.2's benchmark scores to Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro in various reasoning tasks.
Dec 17, 2025

OpenAI’s Answer to Gemini 3: GPT-5.2 arrives, touting variable reasoning and coding performance

OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 only weeks after its CEO Sam Altman reportedly issued a “code red” alarm in response to Google's Gemini 3.
A superhero in blue and red kneels in front of cityscape, holding a shield with the OpenAI logo.
Dec 17, 2025

Disney Teams Up With OpenAI: OpenAI’s Sora video generator will include Disney characters, with fan videos on Disney+

Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.
GIF showing a robotic arm picking up glasses on a table and handling tools on a kitchen countertop.
Dec 17, 2025

Coherent, Interactive Worlds: Runway’s GWM-1 models generate videos with consistent physics for robots and entertainment

Runway’s GWM-1 family of video-generation models respond to user input in real time while producing scenes that remain consistent regardless of the camera’s position.

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