Tech & Society
AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands
Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.
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Data Points
DeepSeek’s Janus reads and generates images: SambaNova and Gradio team up for fast AI webapps
A new safety investigation of Tesla’s self-driving tech. Perplexity adds collaborative spaces and internal search. Nvidia’s new Nemotron model scores big on benchmarks. Telegram’s subculture of explicit deepfake generators.
Data Points
Mistral’s Ministral family tops other local models: Open AI’s Swarm orchestrates teams of agents
NotebookLM lets you add prompts for better podcasts. Apple researchers doubt whether current LLMs can reason. OpenAI tests ChatGPT for gender and racial bias. Perplexity squares off with The New York Times.
Letters
To Fight Climate Change, It’s Time to Consider Geoengineering: Hurricanes Helene and Milton took hundreds of lives, not to mention other disasters driven by climate change. Stratospheric aerosol injection could save countless lives.
To Fight Climate Change, It's Time to Consider Geoengineering
The Batch Newsletter
Bogus Apps, AI Boomtown, Better Embeddings, 2024 Highlights
The Batch AI News and Insights: It’s high time to take geoengineering more seriously as a potential tool to mitigate climate change.
Machine Learning Research
Better Text Embeddings: Jina AI launches jina-embeddings-v3, a text embedding model with task-specific adapters
Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.
Tech & Society
A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs
A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.
Business
U.S. Cracks Down on AI Apps That Overpromise, Underdeliver: U.S. Federal Trade Commission launches Operation AI Comply to tackle deceptive business practices
The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.
Business
Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment
Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.
Data Points
AI models can generate code, but how well do they understand it?: Falcon’s Mamba model outperforms transformers
The MI325X, AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s H200. Research on new language model architectures from Microsoft. Mathcoder 2 makes open models better at mathematical reasoning. An AI system that recreates pianists’ hand movements.
Data Points
Pyramid Flow takes a new approach to video: Gradio update makes it easier to build powerful AI webapps
Anthropic makes batch processing cheaper. A new leaderboard measures models’ finance performance. Aria introduces an new open multimodal MoE model. SETI’s new AI model helps search for life in outer space.
Machine Learning Research
AI’s Criminal Underground Revealed: Researchers uncover black market for AI-driven cybercrime services
Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.