DeepLearning.AI - The Batch

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Data Points

Building a model for vision and speech: How Cloudflare thwarts unauthorized AI crawlers… by using AI

Nvidia’s Nemotron adds reasoning to Llama models. Does ChatGPT make frequent users more lonely? OpenAI’s o1-pro costs a pretty penny. Mistral Small 3.1 gives Gemma 3 27B some competition.

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Data Points

This Aardvark predicts the weather: GPT-4o meets Whisper; OpenAI’s new models

Nvidia gives Project DIGITS a new name. AI models compete to build Minecraft items. Claude chatbot now includes search. A Moore’s law-like regularity for AI agents.

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The Batch Newsletter

Inside Google’s Co-Scientist, Copyright Office Weighs Generated Works, Multilingual (and Good at All of Them), Diffusion for Materials Design

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.

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Letters

Lessons From Our First AI Dev Conference: How our learners began building their way to AI in everything at AI Dev 25 Tags: Letters, DeepLearning.AI News, Learning & Education

Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.

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Science

Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties

Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.

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Business

Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works

The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.

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Machine Learning Research

Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

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Machine Learning Research

Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding

Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.

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Data Points

ERNIE checks competitors with low prices: AI2’s OLMo2 32B may be the top fully open model

Google’s two new Gemini vision-language-action robotics models. Cohere’s Command A, another lightweight LMM. New China regulations require mandatory labels for AI content. Monitoring reasoning models for reward hacking or unwanted behavior.

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Data Points

AI giants’ U.S. policy proposals: Gemma 3 beats bigger open weight rivals

OpenAI’s new SDK and APIs for agentic workflows. Olympic Coder, two powerful open coding models. Alibaba applies RL to emotion detection. GPT-4.5 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 top a new agent leaderboard.

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Letters

Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.

The Batch Newsletter

DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, Phi-4-multimodal Takes Spoken Input, Training AI May Not Be Fair Use

The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.