Tech & Society
Stability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.
Data Points
Want a sneak peek at AI’s resolutions for 2025? We’ve got you covered: Get less expensive. Hallucinate less often. Perform better at math. Clean up after myself. Use less energy. Save as many lives as I can.
Data Points
Genesis uses generative AI in a physics-based robotics/world platform. Qwen presents QVQ, an open language/vision model. ModernBERT updates BERT as a classic classifier/retrieval workhorse. CodeLLM switches between models depending on your language and query.
Letters
Is AI progressing rapidly? Yes! But while the progress of underlying AI technology has indeed sped up over the past 2 years, the fastest acceleration is in applications.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Is AI progressing rapidly? Yes! But while the progress of underlying AI technology has indeed sped up over the past 2 years, the fastest acceleration is in applications.
Business
Big AI companies found creative ways to gain cutting-edge technology and talent without buying startups.
Machine Learning Research
For years, the best AI models got bigger and bigger. But in 2024, some popular large language models were small enough to run on a smartphone.
Machine Learning Research
Video generation exploded in an abundance of powerful models.
Business
Fierce competition among model makers and cloud providers drove down the price of access to state-of-the-art models.
Machine Learning Research
The AI community laid the foundation for systems that can act by prompting large language models iteratively, leading to much higher performance across a range of applications.
Data Points
The Big Guys (Google, Anthropic, Perplexity). Making Media (Black Forest Labs, Udio). Building Software (OpenHands, Cursor, LangChain, Meta). Bringing It All Together (Replit, UX Pilot, and one more).
Data Points
Speech-to-speech models fall short on benchmarks. Backlash against misleading news summaries. Google updates its video and image models. Nvidia’s $250 palm-sized computer for AI developers.
