Tech & Society
Ukraine Develops Aquatic Drones: Ukraine’s naval drones shift balance in Black Sea war against Russia
Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers
Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.
Data Points
A new 3D image model from NVIDIA and Shutterstock: Plus, the U.S. government warms to open-source
Meta’s powerful new real-time object segmentation model, Google expands its open-source Gemma family, how to measure models’ resistance to harmful prompts...
The Batch Newsletter
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.
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning
Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.
Tech & Society
Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access
Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.
Tech & Society
Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft
OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing.
Tech & Society
The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas
Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.
Letters
How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products
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
Data Points
Mistral unveils most capable model yet: Plus, Udio 1.5 features audio-to-audio and mixable stems
DeepSeek’s inexpensive V2 model gets a new license, Stable Video, now in four dimensions, how Runway trained its video model, Microsoft makes Phi-3 easier to fine-tune and deploy
The Batch Newsletter
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.
Machine Learning Research
Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos
Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.