Machine Learning Research
Game Worlds on Tap: Genie 2 brings interactive 3D worlds to life
A new model improves on recent progress in generating interactive virtual worlds from still images.
Latest
Machine Learning Research
Higher Reasoning: OpenAI debuts o1 and pro mode for $200/month
OpenAI launched not only its highly anticipated o1 model but also an operating mode that enables the model to deliver higher performance — at a hefty price.
Business
Competitive Performance, Competitive Prices: Amazon introduces Nova models for text, image, and video
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.
Data Points
Sora has landed (for Pro and Plus users): ElevenLabs unveils podcast tool to challenge NotebookLM
Meta’s 70-billion parameter Llama 3.3 beats 3.1 405B on some metrics. WorldLabs shows off its 3D world model. PaliGemma 2, Google’s open vision-language model. Could new AI models hide their true goals?
Data Points
Amazon’s Nova bursts onto the scene: OpenAI’s full o1 model now available in ChatGPT
HunyuanVideo vies with Sora, etc. A new record for underwater robot speed. Apple partners with Amazon for search and inference. More publishers sign on with Perplexity.
Letters
The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.
There’s a lingering misconception that building with generative AI is expensive.
The Batch Newsletter
AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem.
Machine Learning Research
Breaking Jailbreaks: New E-DPO method strengthens defenses against jailbreak prompts
Jailbreak prompts can prod a large language model (LLM) to overstep built-in boundaries, leading it to do things like respond to queries it was trained to refuse to answer. Researchers devised a way to further boost the probability that LLMs will respond in ways that respect such limits.
Hardware
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Machine Learning Research
Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.
Business
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.
Data Points
OpenAI considers ads: Cohere’s new search model
U.S. shuts down more chips and tech to China. Claude’s Google Docs integration. Adobe’s MultiFoley generates sound for video. Canadian media companies sue OpenAI.