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California Senate Bill 1047 with a large veto stamp on top of the document.
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Llama Goes Multimodal, Pros Embrace Generative Video, Military AI Guidelines, LLMs That Read Spreadsheets

The Batch AI News and Insights: We won! California’s anti-innovation bill SB 1047 was vetoed by Governor Newsom over the weekend.
Hollywood Embraces Video Gen, New Restrictions on Deepfakes, More Open Source Models, Robot Server
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Hollywood Embraces Video Gen, New Restrictions on Deepfakes, More Open Source Models, Robot Server

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week I spoke at Coursera Connect, the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where a major topic was AI and education.
Diagram of the data engineering cycle from generation to ingestion and transformation to analytics and machine learning.
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Models Built for Reasoning, High Gear for Llama 3.1, Brains for Warehouse Robots, Stopping LLMs From Plagiarizing

The Batch AI News and Insights: Years ago, when I was working at a large tech company, I was responsible for the data warehouse.
Comic where a robot is hiding in a closet during a game of hide-and-seek.
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Nations Sign Binding AI Treaty, Waymo Reveals Safety Record, 2D to 3D Goes Mainstream, Balancing Web Data Distributions

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.
NG YEOL
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Hallucination Index, AI-Powered Policing Goes National, Explainable LLMs, Faster Processing for Longer Inputs

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.
AI Restores ALS Patient’s Voice, AI Lobby Grows, Agentic Coding Advances, Massively Multimodal Model
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AI Restores ALS Patient’s Voice, AI Lobby Grows, Agentic Coding Advances, Massively Multimodal Model

The Batch AI News and Insights: After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens).
AI Agents Generate Novel Research, Google Imagen 3 Raises the Bar, Alibaba’s Open Models for Specialized Tasks, Scaling Laws for Data Quality
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AI Agents Generate Novel Research, Google Imagen 3 Raises the Bar, Alibaba’s Open Models for Specialized Tasks, Scaling Laws for Data Quality

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.
LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic
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LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic

The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails
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Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails

The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Llama 3.1 is State-of-the-Art and Open, Web Data Goes Dark, OpenAI Takes on Google and Bing, Synthetic Data Improves
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Llama 3.1 is State-of-the-Art and Open, Web Data Goes Dark, OpenAI Takes on Google and Bing, Synthetic Data Improves

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user — lets you go faster.
OpenAI Shrinks GPT-4o, Meta Withholds Models From Europe, Investors Hoard GPUs, Synthetic Talking Heads Get Expressive
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OpenAI Shrinks GPT-4o, Meta Withholds Models From Europe, Investors Hoard GPUs, Synthetic Talking Heads Get Expressive

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Hallucination Detector, Battle of the Image Generators, How Open Are Open Models?, Copyright Claim Fails Against GitHub
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Hallucination Detector, Battle of the Image Generators, How Open Are Open Models?, Copyright Claim Fails Against GitHub

The Batch AI News and Insights: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
AI’s Cloudy Path to Zero Emissions, Amazon’s Agent Builders, Claude’s UI Advance, Training On Consumer GPUs
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AI’s Cloudy Path to Zero Emissions, Amazon’s Agent Builders, Claude’s UI Advance, Training On Consumer GPUs

The Batch AI News and Insights: I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.
OpenAI Blocks China, Tests for Human-Level Models, Music Industry Sues AI Startups, Model Merging Evolves
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OpenAI Blocks China, Tests for Human-Level Models, Music Industry Sues AI Startups, Model Merging Evolves

The Batch AI News and Insights: As we reach the milestone of the 256th issue of The Batch, I’m reflecting on how AI has changed over the years and how society continues to change with it.
AI Monopolies, Ancestor Avatars, Benchmarks for Agentic Behavior, Chatbot for Minority Languages
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AI Monopolies, Ancestor Avatars, Benchmarks for Agentic Behavior, Chatbot for Minority Languages

The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement.
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