Tech & Society
AI Investors Hoard GPU Power: Investors are stockpiling AI chips to attract startups
Investors have been gathering AI chips to attract AI startups.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
Meta Withholds Models From Europe: Meta restricts multimodal models in the European Union due to privacy concerns.
European users won’t have access to Meta’s multimodal models.
Tech & Society
Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price
A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.
Letters
Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.
AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Data Points
Mistral’s new model ditches transformers: Plus, can AI transform the agriculture industry?
Groq’s new tool use models, another AI safety and security industry group, Microsoft’s new research applying LLMs to spreadsheets, proposed safeguards to protect open AI models
Machine Learning Research
Hallucination Detector: Oxford scientists propose effective method to detect AI hallucinations
Large language models can produce output that’s convincing but false. Researchers proposed a way to identify such hallucinations.
Tech & Society
Image Generators in the Arena: Text-to-image generators face off in arena leaderboard by Artificial Analysis
An arena-style contest pits the world’s best text-to-image generators against each other.
Tech & Society
How Open Are Open Models?: Radboud University study ranks AI models on openness
The word “open” can mean many things with respect to AI. A new paper outlines the variations and ranks popular models for openness.
Tech & Society
Copyright Claim Fails in GitHub Case: Judge dismisses key arguments in AI copyright lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI
A judge rejected key claims in a lawsuit by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the first decision in a series of court actions related to generative AI.
Letters
Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
The Batch Newsletter
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.
Machine Learning Research
Efficient Subject Consistency For Stable Diffusion
Published in mid-2022, DreamBooth enables Stable Diffusion to depict variations on a given subject; say, a particular dog and the same dog with angel wings or wearing a chef’s hat.