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Building a model for vision and speech: How Cloudflare thwarts unauthorized AI crawlers… by using AI
Nvidia’s Nemotron adds reasoning to Llama models. Does ChatGPT make frequent users more lonely? OpenAI’s o1-pro costs a pretty penny. Mistral Small 3.1 gives Gemma 3 27B some competition.
This Aardvark predicts the weather: GPT-4o meets Whisper; OpenAI’s new models
Nvidia gives Project DIGITS a new name. AI models compete to build Minecraft items. Claude chatbot now includes search. A Moore’s law-like regularity for AI agents.
Inside Google’s Co-Scientist, Copyright Office Weighs Generated Works, Multilingual (and Good at All of Them), Diffusion for Materials Design
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.
Lessons From Our First AI Dev Conference: How our learners began building their way to AI in everything at AI Dev 25 Tags: Letters, DeepLearning.AI News, Learning & Education
Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.
Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties
Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.
Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.
ERNIE checks competitors with low prices: AI2’s OLMo2 32B may be the top fully open model
Google’s two new Gemini vision-language-action robotics models. Cohere’s Command A, another lightweight LMM. New China regulations require mandatory labels for AI content. Monitoring reasoning models for reward hacking or unwanted behavior.
AI giants’ U.S. policy proposals: Gemma 3 beats bigger open weight rivals
OpenAI’s new SDK and APIs for agentic workflows. Olympic Coder, two powerful open coding models. Alibaba applies RL to emotion detection. GPT-4.5 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 top a new agent leaderboard.
Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
The Batch Newsletter
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, Phi-4-multimodal Takes Spoken Input, Training AI May Not Be Fair Use
The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
Tech & Society
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.
Tech & Society
Judge Upholds Copyright in AI Training Case: U.S. court rejects fair use defense in Thomson Reuters AI lawsuit
A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.
Machine Learning Research
Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously
Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.
Machine Learning Research
Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models
Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.
Data Points
EAGLE-3 speeds up language models: And the 2024 Turing Award goes to…
Music and lyrics in one diffusion model. Manus AI’s impressive demos spark excitement and backlash. OpenAI sees AGI as a gradual evolution. Google unveils its first Gemini-branded embedding models.
Data Points
Qwen’s mid-sized reasoning model scores big: Sesame moves through speech models’ “uncanny valley”
Cohere’s open vision models support many languages. Jamba 1.6’s two hybrid MoE models promise more speed. Anthropic overhauls its developer console for Claude Sonnet 3.7. Mistral brings its multilingual/multimedia skills to OCR.
Letters
Wait Your Turn! Conversation by Voice Versus Text: Text interactions require taking turns, but voices may interrupt or overlap. Here’s how AI is evolving for voice interactions.
Continuing our discussion on the Voice Stack, I’d like to explore an area that today’s voice-based systems mostly struggle with: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and the turn-taking paradigm of communication.
The Batch Newsletter
GPT-4.5 Goes Big, Claude 3.7 Reasons, Alexa+ Goes Agentic, Generating Text Like an Image
The Batch AI News and Insights: Continuing our discussion on the Voice Stack, I’d like to explore an area that today’s voice-based systems mostly struggle with: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and the turn-taking paradigm of communication.
Tech & Society
Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.
Machine Learning Research
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.