Oct 08, 2025

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Four scenes show a robot problem-solving, using tools, planning with documents, and collaborating on a rocket.
Oct 08, 2025

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows.
Four scenes show a robot problem-solving, using tools, planning with documents, and collaborating on a rocket.
Oct 08, 2025

Check Out Our Course on How to Build AI Agents!: Andrew Ng teaches design patterns and best practices for building autonomous agents in a new course available exclusively from DeepLearning.AI.

I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows.
Flowchart of Text-to-LoRA model processes task embeddings into LoRA adapters, showing weights and losses.
Oct 08, 2025

LoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptions

The approach known as LoRA streamlines fine-tuning by training a small adapter that modifies a pretrained model’s weights at inference. Researchers built a model that generates such adapters directly.
Bar chart comparing performance of Qwen3 models against others in diverse tasks, highlighting Qwen3-Max.
Oct 08, 2025

Qwen3 Goes Big (and Smaller): Alibaba expands Qwen3 family with a 1 trillion-parameter Max model, open-weights Qwen3-VL, and the Qwen3-Omni voice model

Alibaba rounded out the Qwen3 family with its biggest large language model to date as well as smaller models that process text, images, video, and/or audio.
Icons for files, pictures, and shopping connect through nodes to a dollar sign, illustrating AI-driven profit pathways.
Oct 08, 2025

OpenAI, Meta Diversify AI Product Lines: OpenAI and Meta launch social video apps while ChatGPT adds Pulse and Instant Checkout

OpenAI and Meta, which have been content to offer standalone chatbots or tuck them into existing products, introduced dueling social video networks and other initiatives designed to boost revenue and engagement.
Comparison table highlighting Claude Sonnet 4.5's top scores in coding and reasoning benchmarks, featuring improved capabilities.
Oct 08, 2025

Claude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developers

Anthropic updated its mid-size Claude Sonnet model, making it the first member of the Claude family to reach version 4.5. It also enhanced the Claude Code agentic coding tool with long-desired features.

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