Jun 11, 2025

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STORM pipeline overview: Mamba layers link the image encoder and LLM, adding temporal info to tokens and reducing image tokens without losing key details.
Jun 11, 2025

Better Video, Fewer Tokens: STORM Processes Fewer Tokens And Still Beats GPT-4o On Video Understanding Benchmarks

Researchers reduced the number of tokens needed to represent video frames to be fed to a transformer.
Charts from Mary Meeker’s “Trends — Artificial Intelligence” report show global AI user growth, rising AI job demand, and revenue lagging behind compute costs.
Jun 11, 2025

AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.
The FLUX.1 Kontext family of image generators from Black Forest Labs edits images to remove or add objects, apply art styles, and extract details.
Jun 11, 2025

More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details

Same character, new background, new action. That’s the focus of the latest text-to-image models from Germany’s Black Forest Labs.
Bar chart that compares the costs to run a suite of popular benchmarks on reasoning and non-reasoning AI models.
Jun 11, 2025

Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
Colorful LEGO bricks labeled for AI concepts: prompting, agentic, guardrails, evals, RAG, fine-tuning, computer use, async programming.
Jun 11, 2025

FLUX.1 Kontext’s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker’s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen

The Batch AI News and Insights: There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI.
Colorful LEGO bricks labeled for AI concepts: prompting, agentic, guardrails, evals, RAG, fine-tuning, computer use, async programming.
Jun 11, 2025

Meet The New Breed of GenAI Application Engineers: A new breed of software engineers is building more powerful applications faster than ever, thanks to generative AI. Here’s how to identify them in job interviews.

There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI.

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