Business
Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
Machine Learning Research
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
Machine Learning Research
xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.
Data Points
Early version of o3 wows on Codeforces and IOI tests. Adobe debuts integrated Firefly web app with new video model. Mistral’s Arabic-language Saba model scores high on benchmarks. LM2 updates the transformer architecture with dedicated memory.
Data Points
Apple and Alibaba strike an AI deal. Building a reasoning model without using chain of thought. Torque clustering may enable better, faster autonomous learning. Remaking BERT without using task-specific heads.
Letters
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.
Machine Learning Research
Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.
Machine Learning Research
While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.
Tech & Society
Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.
Data Points
Replit’s agentic app for building more apps. ASAP experiments with training techniques for agile robots. Hugging Face’s smaller, open language model beats competitors. IBM uses RL to add reasoning to its open Granite models.
