Machine Learning Research
No Game Engine Required: AI creates an interactive Minecraft-like world in real time
A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
Next-Gen Models Show Limited Gains: AI giants rethink model training strategy as scaling laws break down
Builders of large AI models have relied on the idea that bigger neural networks trained on more data and given more processing power would show steady improvements. Recent developments are challenging that idea.
Data Points
Finding the limits of pretraining and quantization: New EU draft guidelines for regulating top models
Google AI detects wildfires from satellite images. Baidu shows off image RAG, no-code tools, and smart glasses. ChatGPT apps link up with desktop coding tools. New LoRA tools improve image models’ consistency and text generation.
Data Points
OpenAI and Google’s fine-tuning disappoints: Alibaba’s latest Qwen open source code model matches GPT-4
MLPerf tests show Nvidia’s Blackwell chips excel at training models. Google releases AlphaFold 3 code and parameters (with restrictions). DeepSeek’s two-way image model gets even better. Judge tosses copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.
Letters
From Optimizing for People to Optimizing for Machines: Why large language models are increasingly fine-tuned to fit into agentic workflows
Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.
The Batch Newsletter
Llama On the Battlefield, Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead, Open Agentic Platform, Voter Support Chatbot
The Batch AI News and Insights: Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.
Machine Learning Research
Free Agents: OpenHands launches as an open toolkit for advanced code generation and automation
An open source package inspired by the commercial agentic code generator Devin aims to automate computer programming and more.
Tech & Society
Voter’s Helper: Perplexity’s AI-powered U.S. election hub assists voters with verified, real-time news and insights
Some voters navigated last week’s United States elections with help from a large language model that generated output based on verified, nonpartisan information.
Tech & Society
Big AI Pursues Military Contracts: Meta and Anthropic open doors for AI in U.S. defense and national security
Two top AI companies changed their stances on military and intelligence applications.
Machine Learning Research
Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead: Hunyuan-Large outshines open competitors with high benchmark scores
A new open source large language model outperforms competitors, including the open-weights Llama 3.1 405B, on a variety of benchmarks.
Data Points
Art team sells robot’s painting for $1.1 million: TSMC stops shipping advanced chips to China
FrontierMath’s hard math problems baffle models. Nvidia partners with Hugging Face’s robotics platform. Mistral offers multilingual text moderation. Grok teases free access for New Zealand’s X users.
Data Points
SWE-Kit helps developers build their own assistants: New Tencent open model outperforms Llama 3 405B
Oasis builds interactive Minecraft-style games in real-time. Microsoft releases system to coordinate AI agents. OpenAI’s new predicted outputs feature speeds up generation. GitHub launches Spark, a platform to build and host micro-apps.