Letters
Regulate AI Applications, Not Technology: Why the DEFIANCE Act and FTC ban on fake product reviews take the right approach to regulating AI.
I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.
Latest
Data Points
OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis
ByteDance’s China-only video app, U.K. watchdog probes Anthropic’s deals, New Writer models for medicine and finance, SambaNova’s speedy inference platform
Data Points
xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models
A new automated paper-writing system from Sakana AI, GitHub’s Autofix uses GPT-4 to find and plug security holes, Google’s new AI voice assistant...
Machine Learning Research
Machine Translation Goes Agentic: TransAgents, a system that boosts literary translation with a multi-agent workflow
Literary works are challenging to translate. Their relative length, cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions...
Business
AI Leadership Makes for a Difficult Balance Sheet: OpenAI faces financial growing pains, spending double its revenue
OpenAI may be spending roughly twice as much money as it’s bringing in, a sign of the financial pressures of blazing the trail in commercial applications of AI.
Generative AI
Out of the Black Forest: Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 outperforms top text-to-image models
A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.
Business
Higher Performance, Lower Prices: AI model prices drop as competition heats up
Prices for access to large language models are falling as providers exploit new efficiencies and compete for new customers.
Letters
Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances
When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.
The Batch Newsletter
LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic
The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.
Data Points
GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands
Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer
Business
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders: Google acquires Character.AI talent and tech in strategic move
Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.
Letters
Learning to Code is Easier Than Ever!: Our “AI Python for Beginners” courses use an AI coding assistant to teach programming in a way that’s aligned with where the field is going rather than where it has been.
I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.