Weekly AI news and perspective for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: As we reach the milestone of the 256th issue of The Batch, I’m reflecting on how AI has changed over the years and how society continues to change with it.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: One reason for machine learning’s success is that our field welcomes a wide range of work.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: A good way to get started in AI is to start with coursework, which gives a systematic way to gain knowledge, and then to work on projects.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: In the last couple of days, Google announced a doubling of Gemini Pro 1.5's input context window from 1 million to 2 million tokens, and OpenAI released GPT-4o...
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I spoke about AI and regulation at the U.S. Capitol at an event that was attended by legislative and business leaders. I’m encouraged by the progress the open source community has made fending off regulations that would have stifled innovation.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data. Pretraining...
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models.