Tech & Society
No Work for Coders: Could coding assistants take over software development?
AI coding assistants are brewing codebases that once were the sole province of human programmers. Will AI systems take over software development?
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Tech & Society
Innovation Can’t Win: Bureaucracy chokes AI growth as lawmakers tighten grip
Politicians and pundits have conjured visions of doom to convince lawmakers to clamp down on AI. What if terrified legislators choke off innovation in AI?
Tech & Society
AI Burns All the Energy: Will AI’s growing power demands drain the grid?
The globe’s growing AI infrastructure requires huge amounts of electricity, possibly more than power providers can generate responsibly. Could AI models suck energy resources dry?
Letters
The Psychology of AI Doom: Why do people who are well informed about AI worry about unrealistic dangers? There are incentives for doomsaying.
Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.
The Batch Newsletter
Trick or treat! AI Devours Energy, Innovation Can’t Win, Models Collapse, Benchmark Tests Are Meaningless, No Work for Coders
The Batch AI News and Insights: Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.
Data Points
Claude can now write and run JavaScript in chat: Cohere’s embedding model update adds images as well as text
Allegro, an open-source video generation model from Rhymes AI. Meta’s new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B. SynthID text, a new text watermarking tool. Meta’s Lingua and Self-Taught Evaluator, two model-training tools.
Data Points
Anthropic updates Claude, adds computer agent API: Stable Diffusion 3.5 offers free image generation for most users
Spirit LM, an open-weights speech model from Meta. IBM’s open-source, 8–billion parameter Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Google expands its music sandbox for pros and amateurs. A new leaderboard for smaller, quantized language models.
Letters
How to Get User Feedback to Your AI Products - Fast!: Your ability to prototype AI capabilities fast affects all parts of the product development cycle, starting with getting user feedback.
Startups live or die by their ability to execute at speed. For large companies, too, the speed with which an innovation team is able to iterate has a huge impact on its odds of success.
The Batch Newsletter
AI Giants Go Nuclear, A Tech Bromance Turns Turbulent, Mistral Sharpens the Edge, Cheaper Video Generation
The Batch AI News and Insights: Startups live or die by their ability to execute at speed.
Machine Learning Research
Faster, Cheaper Video Generation: Pyramidal Flow Matching, a cost-cutting method for training video generators
Researchers devised a way to cut the cost of training video generators. They used it to build a competitive open source text-to-video model and promised to release the training code.
Machine Learning Research
Mistral AI Sharpens the Edge: Mistral AI unveils Ministral 3B and 8B models, outperforming rivals in small-scale AI
Mistral AI launched two models that raise the bar for language models with 8 billion or fewer parameters, small enough to run on many edge devices.
Business
AI Bromance Turns Turbulent: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership faces strain as both seek less dependence
Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.